Intergalactic Cactus
clay and oil patina
12" x 7" x 4"
$500
My sculptures present surface textures that are candy-like and color-saturated; they reverberate in the space between oppositional constructs such as artifice/natural, synthetic/ organic. The work plays on our attraction to and dependence on idealized, genetically-modified, hot-house-grown aspects of nature; it offers a sanitized, animated version of a living being that has been stripped of a unique biologic identity. They are Disneyfied, petting-zoo-friendly forms that have been carefully shaped and perfected. They are well beyond the origin of any offensive physical function or messy tissue that could decay, age, pucker or scar.