These works are sculpted out of packaging from domestic products designed to augment or mediate a persons’ experience of their body and its interactions with other bodies. Through this reworking, I explored how domestic products can prescribe a normative system of interaction that upholds a dysfunctional dualism, alienating instead of implicating the body. Womxn in particular, are heavily targeted by these products, creating a gender specific pressure to engage in rigorous performance of shame driven maintenance. I chose the processes of cutting and stitching as gestures of opposition, a way to physically reclaim these cultural materials for a new and more playful purpose. Viewers were invited to join in, and expand their relationship to this material with the prompt, “Please play with this collection. Pose, position, perform, combine, leave behind a picture.”
Materials: thread, cardboard packaging from domestic products, mod podge, and disposable camera.
2013