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In The Sweetspot, I treat the setting of a sportsman’s trophy room with a mixture of parody, respect and scolding playfulness. By recasting ideas of ownership and competition, I reexamine the question of what people put on their walls and why. The Sweetspot includes a full size bar, moose heads, fishing trophies for anchovies and wax ducks with extra long bills. The animals offer a sincere and humorous perspective on the tradition of trophy hunting and serve as a sportsman’s guide to interior decorating. While gently prodding at the hyperbole and exaggeration that inevitably surrounds hunting, my work deals with notions of pride, masculinity, prowess and size while simultaneously paying tribute tot the magnificent animals and the hunters themselves. The sculptures embody both reverence and humor.
Richmond Art Center SunValley Center for the Arts
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