Crone-itude
2024
dye sublimation on poly poplin, other fabrics, old jeans, batting, thread, grommets
63 ¾” x 44 ¾”, photo: Sean Carroll

NOTES: The potato came to me several years ago as I was scrapping about for something bodily to photograph that was not a body, not my body. A still life subject that would act like a figure. A food that is as humble and lumpy as the body that consumes it. A food that speaks of earthiness, whose parts are called skin, flesh, eyes.

 

Potatoes are pedestrian, a global staple. Potatoes are survivalist food. And food is never outside of economies even when home grown or foraged in an act of self-reliance or a desire to opt out or out of necessity. I remind myself of this as I arrange potatoes within the quiet of the studio where things seem freer and other values and uses, or non-uses, may take hold.

 

But what is at least as interesting to me now as the connotations of tubers, is the awkwardness of potatoes in the contexts within which I place them. A potato in pantyhose. Potatoes and blue jeans. How this weirdness creates a gap in meaning. And how the humor of such putting together of unlikely things makes room for thought outside of received understandings.

Twin
2024
dye-sublimation on poly poplin, other fabrics, leather, batting, thread, grommets
79” x 52”, photo: Sean Carroll
The Bump
2024
dye-sublimation on poly poplin, other fabrics, old jeans, batting, thread, grommets
63” x 45”, photo: Sean Carroll
Things Being Not What They Are
2024
dye-sublimation on poly poplin, other fabrics, batting, thread, grommets
54 3/4” x 47”, photo: Sean Carroll
earth people
2024
dye-sublimation on poly poplin, other fabrics, old jeans, batting, thread, grommets
55 1/2” x 49 1/2”, photo: Sean Carroll
Animal Joy
2024
dye-sublimation on poly poplin, other fabrics, old jeans, batting, thread, grommets
46” x 41”, photo: Sean Carroll
Birthday
2024
dye-sublimation on poly poplin, other fabrics, old jeans, batting, thread, grommets
47” x 43 ¾”, photo: Sean Carroll