CAEL 5035 - HANDMADE INSTRUMENT - FINAL PROJECT
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Plastic Seeds (Ceramic Petals) (2022)
I’m Busy, Sorry (2022)
Treasure Hunt (Find a Little Prince) (2022)
Netting (2022)
Bundles (2022)
Baby’s Breath (2022)
ARTIST STATEMENT
Within the series I playfully explore human relationships with contradictory feelings, that develop during relationships in a tongue and cheek manner. The concepts of age, misperception, feelings of being trapped, and relationships with consumption are played with.
A series of handmade instruments were experimented with, that engage the ideas of false flags, consideration of role play before actual action, and darkly humorous combinations of materials. A dog filled with wood pieces, that is cop, is posed alongside fake rape blossoms, with a red star and Christmas bells. The wood that rattles in the head of the kids toy, plays with an idea of what turns a person on being misinterpreted as dangerous and sick. The toy rabbit, tied inside of a tin can, is filled with beads that appear like sand. This plays with the idea, of people freaking out, slowly being lulled to sleep by a sound that like a tv put on the fuzz, despite feeling trapped by the screaming. This plays with feelings of sexuality, harassment and appeasement visually and sonically. As the symbolically playful reference to the female, being trapped, but then lulled into a rhythmic tranquility that is musical.
Within Plastic Seeds (Ceramic Petals), wandering and eventually figuring out where things are going, within a train of thought, introduces the series.
Within I’m Busy, Sorry, the concept of being too busy, studying and dating, to attend events, is playfully approached regarding why she secretly prefers a particular type of meat, making a phallic reference as a pun.
In Treasure Hunt (Find a Little Prince), the idea of wanting to get feelings absorbed by males out of a person, not being appealing, to the person engaged, is then explored as the regions criticized as being in need to liposuction become fetishized in private, with the critic being a false flag of needing help. In reality, the critic turns into solutions of motive to remove feelings of sorrow and depression, that psychically playfully results in cutting away, allowing continuous relationships, that are not approved of entirely due to rational causes of conflicts, but they are interesting nonetheless. The title references the little emperor syndrome to little prince, dealing with cross cultural issues between French and Asian cultures, and sexuality, with political puns connected being visually evident. This deals with differences in cultural backgrounds, bodies and feelings, and rationality, within relationships.
Netted, plays with pop birth control, in a fun and playful manner. Concluding the feelings about what is being made, what keeps things fun, and contradictory feelings that develop from resentment, that then are what make things brilliant and fun.
Bundles and Baby’s Breath, visually link with feelings about sexually, accidents, and what repeats as a pattern, where tranquility is eventually found. With the dot pattern of a menthol slap on, being the reverse of that of a pop pill container, both protecting and addressing the same area of a body, and “sports” injuries.