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For Outhouse 2014, artist Michael Combs recreates a full size wood outhouse in the architectural style of a “bayhouse,” the traditional fishermans’ shacks that have dotted the marshlands of Long Island for the last three centuries. Combs, who is descended from a 17th century line of fishermen, duck hunters, and maritime tradition bearers, is particularly interested in the history of these isolated structures built from discarded materials as base camps for hunting and fishing.

“As a young boy, I would spend my summers down at our bay house on the Great South Bay. These houses were a place where men, and only men, stayed when they were hunting or waiting for the day’s catch. Outhouse 2014 replicates the actual primitive latrine that was located at the end of an old dock behind our family’s bayhouse. Initially, I feared visiting it late at night, but later in life I found it to be a place of solitude where I could hide and contemplate the feelings I had about hunting and killing and the stress that we placed on our natural environment. This way of thinking wasn't praised around the bay house; too much was in question: our livelihood, tradition, heritage, masculinity. It was safer to keep those thoughts to myself, hidden, in private.” — Michael Combs

Outhouse 2014 is the working model for a phase two, Self-Portrait 2015, an outhouse fabricated in aluminum and mirrors, for production in 2015-2016.

Parrish Road Show is generously underwritten by Caroline Hirsch and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder. Public funding provided by the Suffolk County.

Comb Jelly by Lee Donahoe

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Comb-crested Jacana by Robert Wienand

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Comb of Life by jsjmns

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Santa Comba Dão by André Barragon

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Comb_llançaments_156557 by Toni Cabrera

Comb_llançaments_156867 by Toni Cabrera

Comb_llançaments_156410 by Toni Cabrera

Comb_llançaments_156470 by Toni Cabrera

Honey Combs by Ollie A

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In order to remove the wax from the honeycomb you use Honeycomb Combs! These scrape off the top layer of wax letting you get to the scrummy honey inside.

comb by tifotter

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Here's part of the remaining inner workings of the wasp nest.

Here's a shot of it when I first saw it out my window.

Comb-crested Jacana by Greg B Miles

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Interesting little water birds which spend their entire life on water, even nesting on the lily leaves. Their large toes enable them to spread their weight and walk across the leaves and they also fly for short distances when necessary. There is a large population of them in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory where this photograph was taken.

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Comb_llançaments_156605 by Toni Cabrera