SOLD Emergency Spoons, spoons, acrylic, rope, Letraset, metal tape ,pins, 8×8 x 1.5, 2015 $125 (3)SOLD Spoons with Attitude, spoons, nails, screws, paint, wire , 8x 10x 2, 2015, $100 (2)
Unlikely Spoon Collection
I am part of the Group classified as the 1% or the people of the Haves. I have shelter, food, clothes, family, a job, health and wealth. The Syrian crisis led me to thinking about the two main classes: the HAVES and the HAVENOTS. Spoon Collections reside in many homes collecting dust, always unused. This is a testament to being a Haves. If this spoon collection never gets used, then why not make it out of very unlikely materials; hair, nails, volcanoes, the moon, toxic waste, and concrete etc. This is the beginning thought process for these works. They are conceptual, silly, dark and commenting on what us Capitalist Haves spend our hard earned money on. -August 2016
Time has eroded this piece. I kept it as such as death is rarely pretty. All of these deaths are sad and violent. Some art is not beautiful and is hard to look at. We need to face these aspects of our life head on. We need to have these difficult conversations.
