contemporary tales of excessive inutilities

Contemporary tales of excessive inutilities, Wood, synthetic fur, foam, and fibers, 102 x 14 x 6 inches, 2022

The freestanding totem sculpture resembles an oversized knife. While the knife handle is pretty true to what a knife handle looks like, the blade part is stylized and designed to look like plushies. In Queer phenomenology, a book that inspires me a lot, the writer reveals how social relations spatially arrange, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that seem distant at first glance. Despite its association with escapism, visual humor frequently serves as an effective method of social criticism as well. It is amazing how quickly we can get caught off guard by a joke, and it can literally leave us speechless. And in that moment of laughter, we often experience a shift in attitude or understanding. A sense of humor creates a new sense of consciousness that has the power to change the way we perceive the world, at the very least.