Full Set is a work of 27 editioned images arranged in a three-by-nine grid, released with Rodeo in 2025.
It is about collective outcomes, and how one person's purchase can change something other people own.
After releasing 26 images, Butcher found the tokens could be pointed at new pictures. He replaced all 26 with a single network grid and set a condition. If the twenty-seventh token sold more than 159,300 editions, the combined count of the first 26, the grid would stay. If not, the old images would come back. The grid you see now is the result of that vote by purchase. The later studio catalogue reports the threshold was passed.
Félix González-Torres's candy spills of the early 1990s let each visitor take a piece and so alter the work's weight and shape for everyone after them. Full Set gives that power a deadline and a number. One buyer's choice adds to a total that decides what holders of 26 earlier works will look at. It is a group work made out of separate private purchases.
Did the people who bought token 27 know they were voting on someone else's picture?
The threshold
In a 10 January 2025 statement, Butcher describes replacing 26 separate images with a network grid after discovering that the tokens could point to new images. The twenty-seventh token would determine whether that change lasted.
If token 27 exceeded 159,300 editions, the combined count he gave for the first 26, the network would remain the artwork. Otherwise, the first 26 would return to their original images. The condition therefore included a possible reversal, not only a route toward completion.1
A purchase that affects other images
The individual choice to collect contributed to a condition affecting the wider group. This differs from selecting a preferred image for one's own token. A participant could help trigger a change experienced by holders of earlier works.
Editorially, the project makes changeable token imagery, a platform property, part of its subject. The relationship among the images matters as much as the appearance of any one edition.
Reported outcome and evidence
A progress post followed on 11 January; on 12 January the artist replied with a checkmark. The later studio catalogue explicitly reports that the threshold was passed.1,2
Development
Notes on the record
Sources and further reading
Artist statements describe intention. Reporting and interviews record different perspectives; exhibition announcements establish specific presentations. How sources are classified.
1. Artist / studio · Selected posts from the downloaded account archive
Full Set: the condition for a collective change
4 selected posts, through 2025-01-12. The original statement explains both possible outcomes of the threshold, followed by a progress post and a checkmark response. Original wording and links are preserved; headings and notes are editorial. This is artist testimony, not independent verification.
2. Artist / studio · Preserved primary-source excerpts
Full Set: Preserved studio catalogue excerpts
Selected passages from the public catalogue before this editorial revision. These preserve the artist's account; their inclusion is not independent corroboration. The capture date is not the work's creation date.