P1eta™, acrylic on canvas, fiber fill, thread, tulle, wire, gold leaf, dyed poly fill, satin mouse tail, iridescent tissue lame, glitter, silk charmeuse, tinsel, led lights, 65 x 72 x 30 inches, 2021
“Let’s invent new relationships with the symbols we have, nothing obliges us to preserve an unjust system that pushes us to confrontation and dissociation.
Let’s allow ourselves to create new uses that are critical of our icons and of ourselves. Ones that allow us to dismantle with grace, and even joy, the cynicism and arrogance of the past and of the present, and to draw both a tolerant and tolerable future.
...Let’s imagine a living, mutant monument that does not have to last forever, that does not always have to tell the same story, that can disappear, transform, transvestite itself. A monument that is fragile, complex, breathing, moving, vegetable, animal, organic. A monument that is calm, rare and nonchalant, without any spirit of domination, discreet, austere. A tender, critical, profound and joyful monument.”
