Get on Your Pony and Ride!
Installation view from the exhibition Facets of Women at Casa Colombo in Jersey City
The installation, Get on Your Pony and Ride! is a celebration of life, an ode to my Southwestern roots, and the beautiful women who live there. The marriage of transparent fabrics and recycled lingerie combined with tongue in cheek titles allude to sexual fun and playfulness at the same time speaking about the passage of time.
The sculpture Get On Your Pony and Ride is a sort of spiritual collaboration with my late husband Joseph Franklin, a master craftsman who built the wooden chair. I visualize the fabric piece as an energetic lap dance that knocks over the chair in an explosion of passion.
Me and My Fuzzy represents a beloved pet (whose real name was Pepe). I see him leaping for joy and ready for anything. He was my constant companion for 15 years. And yes, there is another reference there.
Luck Strike brings together two separate fabric "skins" in a happy and satisfied union. This is the first piece I have created that speaks primarily from a man's perspective. The title plays on the after-sex-cigarette cliché as well as the bite of a rattlesnake.
Lastly If Barbie Could Talk speaks of a little girls fantasies of growing up and becoming a desirable woman.
The sculpture Get On Your Pony and Ride is a sort of spiritual collaboration with my late husband Joseph Franklin, a master craftsman who built the wooden chair. I visualize the fabric piece as an energetic lap dance that knocks over the chair in an explosion of passion.
Me and My Fuzzy represents a beloved pet (whose real name was Pepe). I see him leaping for joy and ready for anything. He was my constant companion for 15 years. And yes, there is another reference there.
Luck Strike brings together two separate fabric "skins" in a happy and satisfied union. This is the first piece I have created that speaks primarily from a man's perspective. The title plays on the after-sex-cigarette cliché as well as the bite of a rattlesnake.
Lastly If Barbie Could Talk speaks of a little girls fantasies of growing up and becoming a desirable woman.
