This multimedia self portrait was part of The Exquisite Corpse’s Scavenged: Altered Art show October 2010. The idea is that your masterpiece is made from leftover bits and shits that you scavenged from thrift stores, the side of the road, etc. Mostly she is made of found pretty paper, cat cutouts from “Cats of the World”, 3M double stick foam remnants, a crappy poster frame, and awesome gold/silver foil. Some of the collage is on the upper plexiglass, the rest inside on the brown frame-back. I liked that when viewed from different angles, the piece changes depth. The Alice in Wonderland fluorescent-green quote was found at Oregon Country Fair. Yes, there are dangle-y cat arms and legs. Oh, and there are cat face cutouts here.
cheshire cat
‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice.’You must be,’ said the Cat, ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.’
Alice didn’t think that proved it at all; however, she went on ‘And how do you know that you’re mad?’
‘To begin with,’ said the Cat, ‘a dog’s not mad. You grant that?’
‘I suppose so,’ said Alice.
‘Well, then,’ the Cat went on, ‘you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.’
mouth and clay
Mouth and Clay was installed at the 2008 Annual Student Show at Western Michigan University and also at the 80th Regional Exhibition at the Muskegon Museum of Art. More images here.
time is growth is line
One recurring theme my thesis exhibition was human hair. I see hair as a line that signifies time and quality of life. Just like rings on a tree, our hair contains physical evidence of hardship, every individual’s temporal existence is personal and tangible.
I experimented with hair, trapping it in resin like the proverbial mosquito in amber.