Eric Enright – 3/27/11 – “House of Cards”

by Eric Enright on March 27, 2011 · No Comments · in 03/2011: March Artist, Eric Enright, objects, photographs

"House of Cards" (under construction) ©Eric Enright "House of Cards" (right view) ©Eric Enright "House of Cards" (left view) ©Eric Enright "House of Cards" (top view) ©Eric Enright "House of Cards" (front view) ©Eric Enright

The NY Daily News reported on several neighborhoods in Queens that have recently been flooded with business cards, or “chica chica” cards, printed with photos of half-naked women that advertise the phone numbers of prostitution services. The proliferation of the baseball card-sized advertisements have drawn the attention of angry residents and local politicians, who want to make it a criminal offense to distribute them.


Appropriately, a traditional house of cards is a very shaky structure, given to collapse with the right amount of pressure.