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My current work is concerned with catalogs as purveyors of images of desire. I work defensively to gain control of their attack on our insecurities. I embed the clothing with abstractions as I regain individual rights for creativity and self-concept back from the advertisement.
Cave USA is a cave made out of catalog pages containing a ritualistic circle of candles. The cave references a place of worship, elevating consumerism to a religious experience. It also references Plato's cave and how perception is socially constructed.
The Reading Room deals with the same issues collapsing social/religious values and consumerism
Books: My series of drawings based on books integrates the spine of the book into the image. A metaphor for how our understanding of images is distorted through its context and medium. The idealized girl’s bedroom is flawed as the spine of the book cuts through the image. The “ideal” of the perfect image is an illusion.
Crate and Barrel: Nature referenced from fine art sources are sometimes embedded in the fabric of the drawn catalogue. The night sky contradicts the superficial environment offered from the catalogue.
Decorator’s Living Room: Bird and Bison Circle: the format of a circle framing the living room alludes to a heavenly ideal. The desire for the ideal environment relates to our search for virtue. |
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