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TROPHIES
Objects that I employ in my work are found amidst the cluttered shelves of Mom and Pop ceramic hobby shops from around the country. I derive simple sculptural scenarios from these innocuous tchotchkes. These scenarios pose fundamental questions about how human artifice affects our understanding and interaction with the environments in which we live, work and play.
SELECTED STATEMENTS
The title, Pretty Birdie, is meant to evoke the sentimental image of a little girl murmuring to her pet bird.
Like a pet bird this pink kitsch object is a souvenir of the natural world. The prop like tree, cast simultaneously in the midst of winter with its bare branches and summer with its voluminous green foliage, is meant to emphasize the artificial qualities of this memento.
Expect to be scratched is a simplification of the colloquialism “he/she that plays with cats must expect to
get scratched.” This piece addresses the role of pets or domesticated animals in our lives and vice versa.
It asks the viewer to consider whether they identify with the ambivalent and hermetically confined bird or
the backyard tiger blind to the futility of its instinctive attack.
Objects that I employ in my work are found amidst the cluttered shelves of Mom and Pop ceramic hobby shops from around the country. I derive simple sculptural scenarios from these innocuous tchotchkes. These scenarios pose fundamental questions about how human artifice affects our understanding and interaction with the environments in which we live, work and play.
SELECTED STATEMENTS
The title, Pretty Birdie, is meant to evoke the sentimental image of a little girl murmuring to her pet bird.
Like a pet bird this pink kitsch object is a souvenir of the natural world. The prop like tree, cast simultaneously in the midst of winter with its bare branches and summer with its voluminous green foliage, is meant to emphasize the artificial qualities of this memento.
Expect to be scratched is a simplification of the colloquialism “he/she that plays with cats must expect to
get scratched.” This piece addresses the role of pets or domesticated animals in our lives and vice versa.
It asks the viewer to consider whether they identify with the ambivalent and hermetically confined bird or
the backyard tiger blind to the futility of its instinctive attack.
