Portfolio > SOUTHPAW (REDUX) | 2011 (click to expand project)

Southpaw Redux
Plaster, coyote teeth, fragmites, resin, blown-glass, feathers, foam, plastic, papier-maché
70 x 30 x 40 inches
2012
Southpaw Redux (Side View)
Plaster, coyote teeth, fragmites, resin, blown-glass, feathers, foam, plastic, papier-maché
70 x 30 x 40 inches
2012
Southpaw Redux (Overhead View)
Plaster, coyote teeth, fragmites, resin, blown-glass, feathers, foam, plastic, papier-maché
70 x 30 x 40 inches
2012
Southpaw Redux (Detail of Painted Cloth)
Plaster, coyote teeth, fragmites, resin, blown-glass, feathers, foam, plastic, papier-maché
70 x 30 x 40 inches
2012

Southpaw (Redux) is pretty close to a self portrait. It integrates elements of the natural world, the carnival-esque, the uncanny, the whimsical, the artist as tragi/comic figure, and the absurd. The found materials (Phragmites; the "common reed," and the coyote teeth) are examples of invasive species from my home state of Rhode Island. The "bird brain" filled with dove feathers was made in collaboration with Charlotte Potter.