1 2007-08-26T09:57:30+00:00 <p>Many of these sculptures were inspired by a study of the earliest mechanical inventions including clocks and mechanical toys. They depict the grotesque “open body” with the bawdy laughter of the carnivalesque. Familiar iconography is layered with a literal materiality for a communication that is at once visceral and emblematic.</p> <p><img src="http://208.75.85.218/uploads/assets/global/0000/0219/HoneyBearsSmall.jpg" alt="" /> Honey Bears Exchange Fluids, 1994, 9” x 12” x 5”, honey bears, honey, ants, lightbox</p> 7 92-96-Selected-Works

2007-11-18T16:40:17+00:00 6OzTVyHe1iSlNg2a37diItdjL5QI64AScFdcbZ8E 1 2007-08-26T09:57:31+00:00 <p>These works are an extension of my interest in early automata and decorative porcelains. They are elaborately mechanical re-stagings of age-old myths and shop-worn schticks. While deliberately amusing and baroque, they transmit an underlying anxiety about both acculturation and embodiment.</p> <p><img src="http://208.75.85.218/uploads/assets/global/0000/0247/Wolf2a.jpg" alt="" /> <br> Wolf Mother (detail) 2000, 4’ x 14” x 10”, found toys, cast Aquaresin, brass, wood, motor, fishing line. As wolf’s head moves slowly down, tongue comes out to lick baby’s butt, as wolf head rises, tongue retracts.</p> 8 97-2001-Selected-Works

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