2019
Body Double
Body Double (2019), from Illness and Objecthood. Mixed media sculpture ; Plaster, concrete, resin, silicone, pigment, fishnet stocking, wood & paint ; 55 x 80 x 38”
Body Double (2019) emerges as the first large-scale sculpture from within an ongoing body of work titled Illness and Objecthood that combines sculpture, image & text. Installation view with, Of my presence as if catching a stranger’s wave [photographic diptych] at Kontort (Toronto). Also shown with Bound up in White Fishnet. Accompanying text Women, Art, and Illness, here.
Of my presence as if catching a stranger’s wave
Of my presence as if catching a stranger’s wave (2019), from Illness and Objecthood.
Photographic diptych ; Archival inkjet prints ; Edition of ten ; 16 x 20” & 20 x 30” [framed: 18 x 22” & 22 x 32”]
Bound up in White Fishnet
Bound up in white fishnet (2019), from Illness and Objecthood.
Photographic print ; Archival inkjet print ; Edition of ten ; 24 x 36” [framed: 26 x 38”]
Waterwings
Waterwings (2019) is a series of sculptures that threaten disaster and promise relief, although neither are perfectly true. A ready-to-use roll of bubble wrap and various discarded scraps connect the padded innards of freight to the soft infrastructures that buttress the social world. A material of care and one indicative of the hazards of contemporaneity, bubble wrap can be seen as a troublesome slip between culture and conscience. Moulded and cast in glassy resin, gentle folds are paradoxical, simultaneously eternal and infernal, soft yet unyielding, floatation device and flotsam.
Calculus for the Moral Hazard of Self-Care
