I'm dealing with desire through fantasy and role playing. The idea of the human as a hot-house flower really interests me. A protected, pasty, and flabby body bound in starched cotton and velvet. How do the pampered spend their time? I present different scenarios, through video, drawing and installation, of how a peculiar character spends their time. These objects are dealing with the deflection of sexuality through ritual. Who has the time to invest careful attention into making something that has a seemingly impractical function?
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you scandalous!! um hmm
There is an interesting relationship to the nature of labor in your work that relates to that sense of uselessness.....or your use of an ersatz version of functionalism.....I'm actually curious about the use of the comic as frame for this---relating your work to Ryan's for example, in the sense of the comic as a mode in which to deal with identity in a social group:
"..comedy tends to deal with character in a social group, whereas tragedy is more concentrated on a single individual...the root idea of pathos is the exclusion of an individual from a social group to which he is trying to belong.....someone broken by a conflict between the inner and outer world, between imaginative reality and the sort of reality which is established by a social concensus." Northrop Frye.
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There is an interesting thing that happens in comedy...specifically romantic comedy. When you look at Shakespeare the difference between a romantic comedy and a tragic comedy are only a few door slams and a drop of poison. You can be seconds away from a Hamlet or Twelfth night. Your work hovers around romanticism for me. Some of it being tragic and some of it being romantic. It would be interesting to see how far it could be pushed from one direction to the other.
Your work is great when it is creepy and/or funny, which nowadays, is often.
Thanks for the comments. I've been thinking alot about Satire lately. Satire can only be successful when it's coming from the "outside". The victor can never make a satire of the loser successfully.
i've always admired the love and care in the creation of everything you make- especially when you take objects that are trash, or leftovers- hence unloved- and you laboriously transform them into beautiful objects- still 'junk' because they are in essence useless (sometimes), but now they are loved.. and that makes them worthy. and i find this theme in a lot of your work. and i LOVE it!
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