Riiko Sakkinen | Objects | Boredom
Boredom
October - November 2013, Beirut
5 x 23 x 5 cm
Permanent marker and white label on printed package
i Oreo is a sandwich cookie produced by Nabisco. It consists of two chocolate disks with a sweet cream filling in between. It sold globally and it is best selling cookie in the United States since its introduction in 1912. Oreo has been used to refer to a black person who acts in a stereotypically white manner.

Boredom is an emotional state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, and not interested in their surroundings. The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, although the expression to be a bore had been used in the sense of to be tiresome or dull earlier.
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