Lil’ Stinker the Horse
Soap
3.25” x 1” x 2.5” 3.5” x 1” x 3.25”
3.25” x 1” x 2.5” 3.5” x 1” x 3.25”
In Process
Life in a Suitcase Cardboard, Fabric, Cotton Batting, Spray Glue, Acrylic, Glitter Glue, Paper, Felt, Altered Children's Toys, Altered Children's Clothes 13.5” x 5” x 19” This piece was inspired by the movie The Florida Project (2017). It consists of a cardboard suitcase filled with little girls clothes and eight objects each in some way significant to themes or imagery in the movie. Each object is housed in a piece of clothing, representing how Mooney, the main character, has to compartmentalize pieces of her life even as a child. Some objects are representational, like the felt marijuana leaves and a castle painted purple to resemble the motel Mooney lives in. Other objects are not as straightforward. There is a dollar store mermaid doll that looked similar to the toys Mooney plays with in the bathtub while her mother is in the other room trading sex for money. The doll visually resembles her mother, so I took the mermaid tail off and placed fake hundred dollar b...
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