One think I'd like to mention first about Robert Gober is that all of his work is hand crafted. All of it. And that is something I really appreciate about his work. In his work, there is an exploration of the domestic and the body and how they interact with each other but with an absurdist twist, which is something I will be delving into in my work as well. There is something both sexual and unnerving in his work that gets under the skin and stays there. Since Jeff showed me his work on Thursday I can't seem to get it out of my head and I'm sure that it will have a definite influence in the language of my senior portfolio.
I'm also considering more and more the possibility of creating my own pieces to put in the room/space with my models. The more thinking I do, the more likely it is that I'm going to think up something that just doesn't exist (and probably with good reason). Some of my AFO training is probably going to come in here in that I'm going to come up with some creative solutions, especially if I end up using that vase of cat tails idea that I mentioned earlier because really, I don't want to use real cat tails... not that I think I'd be able to find enough real severed cat tails to fill a vase.
In Order of Posting: Untitled, beeswax, pigment, cotton, leather, aluminum pull tabs, human hair, cast gypsum polymer, paint, 2007; Untitled, 1990, beeswax, human hair, pigment; Untitled, willow, wax, and hair, 2000
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