Catheads 2007

Curve 2007

Statement

Working primarily in sculpture and drawing I attempt to reconfigure our emotional relationship with objects. By combining docile and feminine materials with modernist forms I make a kind of insider outsider object. Using costume jewelry in a way that explores its formal qualities I exaggerate its actual physical qualities, allowing the function to follow its form. When something once valued, such as jewelry or a pet, is no longer wanted and is discarded it transforms into something that appears dark or menacing. Domesticated animals that have returned to a wild state tend to exemplify the aspects of that animal that people usually find unsavory. I am attracted to these particular kinds of dirty. This is what I refer to as to the patina of the discarded.