Viscera
2016
Glass,Oils, String, Roving, Wire, Foam, Silicon, Plastic, Nylon, Batting
5’6x6’x 4’
The innermost core of our physical bodies, organs, are often considered grotesque and disorganized when exposed, yet run with beautiful clockwork precision. Our innermost thoughts run imprecise and await organization into a whole, only to evolve or dissolve at random. Externally, we seek beauty as a means of comfort, yet are typically discomforted by the grotesque and preoccupied with the internal. Using multiple processes in glass and mixed media, I experiment with challenging the viewer's perception of the dichotomies between beauty and grotesque, external and internal, using a variety of colors, shapes and textures.Using multiple experimental processes in glass and mixed media combining shape, color and texture, I’m giving a personal interpretation to those parts inside us, individually necessary to the whole and never seen by our own eyes in the same way we minutely examine our external surface. It seems absurd that our soul or self, presumed infinite, should be tethered to the sum of these parts, fragile and finite yet functional.
