Titles: Reach Out And, @, Jeannie, Bell, Lump, Please Press Star, Alien, Ringing, Clover, Long, Home, Clench, Please Hold, Please, Drip, Tower, Holding Pattern, Broke, What, Call Box, Mobile, Poke, Dropped
Connective Issues
The more flat, diminutive, and virtual our devices of communication become, the larger, more intimate and varied roles they play in our lives. They are vessels ‘containing’ loved ones, memories, entertainment, and safety – freeing us to be mobile yet anchoring. I sleep with my phone. I am simultaneously dependent on and resentful of this extension of my body, this pacifier.
These clay, fiber, and mixed-media phone-like sculptures are symbolic representations of the relationships we have with others and with ourselves. They are softened, ornamented and contextualized with crocheted threads, yarns, doilies and mats. Inspired by the sensuality of antique phones and crafts such as latch-hook, my use of low-tech process is not a critique of technology, but of behavior. I examine dysfunction, loneliness, ‘home,’ and ambivalence through abstraction, balance, and excess, and laugh at my obsessions in this messy realm of connection. Also, I wonder how the changing modes of fulfilling this basic need to “reach out and touch” each other might also be changing us.
Connective Issues
The more flat, diminutive, and virtual our devices of communication become, the larger, more intimate and varied roles they play in our lives. They are vessels ‘containing’ loved ones, memories, entertainment, and safety – freeing us to be mobile yet anchoring. I sleep with my phone. I am simultaneously dependent on and resentful of this extension of my body, this pacifier.
These clay, fiber, and mixed-media phone-like sculptures are symbolic representations of the relationships we have with others and with ourselves. They are softened, ornamented and contextualized with crocheted threads, yarns, doilies and mats. Inspired by the sensuality of antique phones and crafts such as latch-hook, my use of low-tech process is not a critique of technology, but of behavior. I examine dysfunction, loneliness, ‘home,’ and ambivalence through abstraction, balance, and excess, and laugh at my obsessions in this messy realm of connection. Also, I wonder how the changing modes of fulfilling this basic need to “reach out and touch” each other might also be changing us.