TEN DEGREES OF WRONG
2008 - 2010
DIVERSE WORKS, HOUSTON, TX
My mother and I made boxes (we called them peep shows) when I was a little girl. Using a shoe box, colored cellophane, newspaper and magazine cutouts, we created fairy tales and monster tales, hung a light over the box and peeped through a hole in the side. They seemed magical but threatening to me.
My mom quoted Clifford Odets to me, "We are living in a time when new art should shoot bullets". I never forgot.
These boxes, 10 Degrees of Wrong, are of such a time. Our time. They are what I read, see and hear -- child labor, torture, tyranny, oppression and more of course. Instead of 10 they could be 100, 1000 or a million. Every artist has something stuck in her craw. She coughs and coughs and sometimes it comes out.
My mom quoted Clifford Odets to me, "We are living in a time when new art should shoot bullets". I never forgot.
These boxes, 10 Degrees of Wrong, are of such a time. Our time. They are what I read, see and hear -- child labor, torture, tyranny, oppression and more of course. Instead of 10 they could be 100, 1000 or a million. Every artist has something stuck in her craw. She coughs and coughs and sometimes it comes out.
