Explosions. Reappropriation of objects. A rational interpretation of chaos.There is an easy interview with her here which is pretty lighthearted and uncomplicated. There is an undeniable sense of play and, even though this could be seen as a criticism, carelessness in her work. If you listen to the interview, you discover her acceptance of the influence of her upbringing, which she admits happily but doesn't use it as a crutch, just a rung. I like her work best when it isn't so overt. For instance "Measuring the Statue of Liberty with a Dollar" is perhaps too conceptual and not enough of an engulfing aesthetic experience for my taste, but her explosions I would love to see in real life.
Here is a statement by her:
"I am concerned with ambivalence, with opposites, with inhaling and exhaling, things falling and things rising, things disintegrating and coming together...with killing things off, as if they existed in cartoon comics, and then resurrecting them, so that one set of references is negated as a new one takes its place."
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