Accession Code: wu0883 Title: Untitled (If I Can't Have Love, I'll Take Sunshine) Date completed: 2006 Classification: Sculpture Medium: Neon Height (mm): 381 Width (mm): 1524 Depth (mm): Inscription: Location Name: Picture Store Location Description: Location Floor:

Quotations from literary sources and other textual statements have been a significant feature of Ligon's art; one of his aims, he says, is to "make language into a physical thing, something that has real weight and force to it".

Untitled (If I Can't Have Love, I'll Take Sunshine) is taken from the poem Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen. In an unusual use of neon lighting, the front surface of the letters have been painted black. This produces a halo of light which glows behind the text, thus intensifying the message.