Let’s Make a Baby! (2022)
Let’s Make a Baby! includes video installation, clay figurines, animations, and prints. The various components function as different words in the same sentence: distinct yet adding to the broader meaning. Instead of providing one pre-selected perspective, the arrangement of the disparate pieces “opens up for many perspectives and leaves it up to the viewer to choose" (Anne Ring Petersen, 2015.) Depending on where you position yourself in the gallery, your point of view changes, allowing different inferences.
Installation Views | Video, Clay Figurines, and Inkjet Prints | Prints and Animations | Collage “Evidence Bags”
Early in the editing process of the Let’s Make a Baby! video, I started to have an impulse to remix original and found materials. This impulse manifests in the prints, animations, and collage “evidence bags.”
Prints in this exhibition complicate the pleasurable repetition of playful childhood imageries by imbuing appropriated children’s book illustrations with menace. This is achieved through remixing images of disparate styles, content, and emotional tones. The animations further accentuate this dissonance.
Prospect, Inkjet and screen-print, 8.5 x 11 inches (image); 17 x 20 inches (framed)
Prospect (detail), Inkjet and screen-print, 8.5 x 11 inches (image); 17 x 20 inches (framed)
Progress, Inkjet and screen-print, 8.5 x 11 inches (image); 17 x 20 inches (framed)
Progress (detail), Inkjet and screen-print, 8.5 x 11 inches (image); 17 x 20 inches (framed)
Treasure, Animation projected on suspended paper, 00:06 run time (looping)
Sweet Dreams, Animation projected on suspended paper, 00:03 run time (looping)
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All | Print/Paper | Time-Based Art | Installation | Book Art | Graphic Design | Sculpture | Writing