liplocked

cement core sample, brass lock, bag clip   12 x 4 x 4 inches

nuff said

side boob, boobie prize, breast works.  (All references to the Kardashians are intentional.)     gendered stool series.

2016,   45 x 19 x 16 inches, found hatbox, fan, stool, yarn.

This gaggle of boobies, balls and penis are an homage to generative powers.  They have been paired with found objects gathered from my environment and bound together with yarn.

crutch

crutch, yarn, tree stand, up-cycled grocery bags, 56 x 24 x 24 inches

What are your crutches?

contrapposto / double hung

bike pump, citrus press, yarn

25 x 11 x 16 inches

augmentation

vintage hand drill, yarn, plastic funnel  13.5 x 5 x 7 inches

drill inserted into funnel and tightened.  

fertility sculpture with crown of children

potato masher, yarn

homage to Martha Rosler.

satyros

bolt cutter, yarn, up-cycled grocery bags (stuffing)

19 x 9 x 7 inches

cozy

tea kettle, yarn

2016

cuffing season

Thinking With Our Hands Exhibtion, RABBITHOLE PROJECTS, Brooklyn, NY

dimensions variable, monopods, branches, yarn, up-cycled grocery bags (stuffing), 2016

These fertility sculptures speak to the generative body through the lense of Baya Weaver Bird nests, which are astonishingly humanoid.  After males lure females into their nests for mating, they then retreat to their unfinished bachelor nests to lure the next female.   

There is an audio component with the installation.  It is a recording of me whistling birdsongs from memory.  I've thrown in a few cat calls as well.  Vimeo link here.

installation shot cuffing season

cuffing season installation in Polyvalent Spaces.  See more images in separate gallery.

size variable

yarn, upcycled grocery bags as stuffing, raffia twine, clothes pins

bachelor nest, cuffing season (detail)

11 x 5 x 6 inches   yarn, up-cycled grocery bags for stuffing, tree limb.

Based on the Baya Weaver bird nest, this gendered nest reflects the power of this domestic space.  Male birds weave a nest that resembles a phallus, attract a female, mate and then move on to an incomplete nest, called a bachelor nest.  He then attracts another female, completes the nest and mates.

party hats (choice)

lemon press, yarn   9 x 9 x 9 inches

akimbo

10.5 x 8.5 x 4 inches.  steel tube, light bulbs, yarn.

Spent light bulbs take an androgynous turn, becoming the generative body that eludes to both male and female. A steel tube could be a torso with breasts akimbo or a phallus and testicles standing on end.

prosthetic

2016, 11 x 10 x 5 inches,  shoe horn, upcycled plastic bags (stuffing), yarn

Upward mobility and lateral support.  Everyone needs a little help now and then. Fertility sculptures and fetish objects.

detail: birth tree

butts and such    gendered stool series.

2016, 38 x 20 x 20 inches.  Found cigarette butt disposal can, chair, yarn.

A chair has always been a stand in for a human body.  In the gendered stool series, I add anatomy that transform them into fertility sculptures.  

In this case a cigarette (butt) bucket becomes an opening in a crevice that suggests either the vulva or the buttox.  Animated knit additions could be either phallic or breasts. 

birth tree

2016, 79 x 38 x 25 inches.  Found coatrack, brake line, air mask, yarn.

A found air mask becomes a uterus with leafy ovaries.  A coatrack sprouting a brake line, becomes a tree-like form.  

The tree is an archetypal symbol of breath, healing, connection. 
The Druids and Celtic mysticism believed that certain trees were sacred and birth dates, associated with certain trees could predict personality types.  

make banana holders great again

banana holder, plastic string, up-cycled grocery bags (stuffing)

17 x 10 x 10 inches

a micro penis in yellow and orange.

pickle   gendered stool series

2016, 35 x 16 x 16 inches.  stool, lime press, drawer pulls, wire, yarn

It took some pretty big balls to keep this phallus upright. 

seduced by a serpent/ soldered in the garden 

vintage soldering iron, yarn, up-cycled grocery bags

6 x 12 x 15 inches

bonding/joining/uniting and references to the fall of mankind

pink piggy pushup Venus

2016,  3 x 4 x 7 inches  pot scrubber, yarn

If pushup bras had existed when they made the Willendorf Venus, she would have rocked one of these.  :))

totem

34 x 10 x 9 inches

auger, citrus attachment for mixer, yarn.

meat

8 x 4 x 9 inches.  meat grinder attachment, yarn.

Radio tubes

7 x 3 x 4 inches
garlic press, radio tubes, yarn

garlic, in Buddhist traditions is an aphrodisiac!  There's a nod to Martha Rosler in here too.  :))

wink

7 x 6 x2 inches.  lamp burner, yarn

socks

9 x 4 x 6.5 inches   vintage oil can, radio tubes, yarn.

It's important to stay warm.

manspread,  gendered stool series. 

2016, 33 x 14 x 16 inches, lemon press, found stool, yarn.

This lemon press balances perfectly on the edge of the stool and alludes to a phenomenon that plagues the subways,   These objects navigate the space between pathos and humor.  

baby bump    gendered stool series

28 x 22 x 23 inches, found child's chair, drills, colander, screw driver, fondue prong, yarn.

Baby oil

2016, 9 x 7 x 6 inches, oil funnel, yarn

self explanatory

animus   gendered stool series.

2016, 36 x 16 x 40 inches, found chair, gloves, bike pump, ceramic jars, yarn

Duality and slippage of traditional gender boundaries, represented by including both the phallus and breasts suggests the Jungian underpinnings that the title alludes to.

hung

25 x 9 x 8 inches.  orange squeezer, bike pump, yarn.

breach    gendered stool series

42 x 30 x 26 inches.   stool, vacuum hose, watering can, upcycled plastic bags (stuffing), yarn.
 

a slight bend to the right

3 x 6.5 x 6 inches, iron railroad stake, yarn

Baby oil    gendered stool series

2016, 9 x 7 x 6 inches, oil funnel, yarn, plastic stool.

The Urban Dictionary came in handy for this spurting, upright object. Its implied masculinity is offset by the dainty pink stool.

detail: animaanima

this sculpture was made from yarn spun entirely on a drop splindle with uncombed fleece, literally one section of fleece at a time.  This time consuming process allowed me to expose the wiry end of each section, giving it a glorious texture.  I added raw fleece to the outer edge to add a coarse halo.

animaanima

fertility sculptures and fetish objects
2016, 62 x 23 x 15 inches, found lamp, cement fragments, yarn.  fetuses - piggy pot scrubbers, yarn and wire.

Monochromatic, this human size sculpture is heavily textured and lusciously alluring. She is also now pregnant with triplets. (see detail)

animaanima is pregnant

4th leg    gendered stool series

2016, 43 x 23 x 25 inches, found chair, bricks, verdigri knob, conduit, garden hose, yarn.

A certain male appendage has been referred to as a 3rd leg...

The weight of the "brick" on the front perfectly counterbalances the absence of the brick under the back right leg.  The conduit and hose feminizes this macho figure - evoking a boa, yet another slang for this male appendage.

Handspun yarn.  Furthest left was done on a drop spindle, the others with a borrowed spinning wheel. The golden yarn was spun from fleece given to me by someone who raised the sheep and dyed the yarn herself, which adds a communal effort to the materials.

all

2016,  17 x 11 x 11 inches, found detergent bucket, fondue stand, yarn.

This hairy orifice is an interesting play off of the word scrawled across the can on which it sits.  "all"

umbilicus

2016, 25 x 58 x 17 inches, found wire conduit, bucket, upcycled plastic bags, yarn.

Mythological stories label the snake as the umbilical cord that links humanity to the earth.

all: side view