INSIDE EVERY MAN
INSIDE EVERY MAN. Letterpress on Fabriano, 4 X 6 in each image. (Click to enlarge.)
“Played like a word game: phrases carefully letter-set and framed. Later, fractured into words, words to letters. The game points in one direction - to fragility - frayed, pink, threaded, bound. And to another toward innuendo (biting Jacob? Edward?).
Morph to a slight-of-hand trick: logos made to float mysteriously above symbols of absence and vulnerability. One the wall (see detail) the fragments are corralled together by over-done, nested gold gilt frames. Underscore the obsessive need to frame nothing(ness) correctly.”
PUNCH/DROWN. Fabricated photographs, cut paper letters, found images, dimensions variable. (Click to enlarge.)
DETAIL, "INSIDE EVERY MAN"
“Bits of letterpress, papercraft, scrapbooking tape, prize ribbons, children’s bandaids, rubbers stamps and gilded wood - maleness, like art, is largely overdone. When the frame is glitzier than the thing itself . . .”
PUNCH/DROWN. Wall installation of intaglio prints, cut paper, letterpress, sponge bob bandaids, faux gold frames, paper badges, 60 x 84 in. (Click to enlarge.)