My day has been busy packing orders from today’s Seconds Sale so a big thank you to everyone for that! At this moment only 14 items of the original 50 remain so that was a great day. What it does mean, unfortunately, is that I have little left in me as far as brains are concerned to formulate an eloquent blog post, so instead I leave you of this image of me and a shark in party hats (around 2007 or 2008 - ish)
Throwback
As I’ve been experimenting in a new medium (more on that tomorrow), I am looking back at some themes that I love but find harder to successfully incorporate into my work on a regular basis. The theater stage is one of them. To me it speaks of drama, artifice, pretending to be someone you aren’t, trying something new, or acting out your dreams. I have a few sculptures in which I’ve used this as a tool but never quite in the way I’ve hoped for.
Every time you open your mouth…(Drama), 2020.
This sculpture was meant to speak to the idea of someone who, no matter what they said, every time they opened their mouth, you knew it was going to be some drama. I love that the simplicity of this piece allows the drama to be implied and therefore invented anew by each viewer. Someone wrote me that it made them think about the former president whereas others expressed knowing someone like this personally.
Another instance of using a small stage is in the sculpture below, To Sleep // To Dream, where in the double sided piece, the viewer is able to decide whether they’d like to be more practical (sleeping bird side) or more fantastical (dreaming bird side with a theater stage in his belly…an invitation to dream beyond what is possible in regular life.)
To Sleep // To Dream, 2021
I’m hoping to incorporate this as a symbol in some upcoming work, on one level or another. We’ll see how it goes… Stay Tuned!