Empty Calorie
Polymer Clay, Resin
This series of sculptures coalesces ideas about food, the body and its eventual decay into playful incubuses and bodily amalgams. These forms can be endearing, grotesque or funny to any given individual, and that’s part of their charm.
These sculptures exploit tensions between food and the body, often to a comedic breaking point. They combine elements that may be inviting with contradictory or disfigured forms, and the things that speak to gut reactions of hunger, disgust or surprise. The sculptures contrast the edible and inedible, the objects you may touch or must never touch, illustrating the entanglement of these ideas in our social minds.
My sculptures represent pleasures that are complicated; cravings, the desire to consume, and the rapture to destroy. All of which, becomes encapsulated in the food we create, eat and absorb into our bodies.
This series of sculptures coalesces ideas about food, the body and its eventual decay into playful incubuses and bodily amalgams. These forms can be endearing, grotesque or funny to any given individual, and that’s part of their charm.
These sculptures exploit tensions between food and the body, often to a comedic breaking point. They combine elements that may be inviting with contradictory or disfigured forms, and the things that speak to gut reactions of hunger, disgust or surprise. The sculptures contrast the edible and inedible, the objects you may touch or must never touch, illustrating the entanglement of these ideas in our social minds.
My sculptures represent pleasures that are complicated; cravings, the desire to consume, and the rapture to destroy. All of which, becomes encapsulated in the food we create, eat and absorb into our bodies.