Comments on: Museum Quality.

By: Sonata For Wee Viola.

Sonata For Wee Viola. — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:03:10 +0000

[...] to twenty, she has a wide repertoire of songs and her dancing gets better all the time. Her artwork continues to be disturbing, but her physical confidence has exploded, and she’s finally gotten the [...]

By: Awesome Blossom. « Red Sonika.

Awesome Blossom. « Red Sonika. — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:46:58 +0000

[...] Alexa of Flotsam clues us in: it’s not a mess, it’s an installation. [...]

By: The Trephine › A utopian blueprint, sans winged creatures.

The Trephine › A utopian blueprint, sans winged creatures. — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:20:08 +0000

[...] those are not disembodied treetops floating in the sky, but clouds. As Alexa’s trained eye could surely tell, my artistic endeavors incorporate a deliberate stylistic [...]

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:00:49 +0000

Clearly an example of post-commercialist modernism, the non-organic forms representing the reliance of society on cosmetic and pharmaceutical trickery is literally “going down the drain”, while the softer organic shapes, complementing each other in form and color, are connected with a delicate tendril of low-tech hygiene. The black sock is bold in it’s statement of spatial existence and the white one is modest in it’s obvious un-bleached honesty.

The artist separates the organic forms of original humanity and ingenuity from the aggressively manufactured shapes of conglomerate production on a single plane of porcelain, representing the hard, cold choices we must all make on a daily basis.

By: Larissa Gaston

Larissa Gaston — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:22:49 +0000

Loved this, and The Smiths reference (black on the outside, because black is how it feels on the inside) – cracked me up! Your artist in the making…she’s so dark.:)

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:14:23 +0000

How, in the world, did you let the Klonopin bottle get empty? That is what my mind wants to know.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:40:40 +0000

The empty Klonopin bottle represents the emptiness felt by members of modern society, a vast hole waiting to be filled. In turn, the toothpaste is the sterile white substance we ingest to fill this emotional and spiritual void; it can be squeezed to conform effortlessly to every size and shape, while providing no real nutrition.

The white and black socks (representing our idealized and actual selves, respectively) are joined tenuously by the thin white thread of dental floss, a metaphor for the fragile hope we hold for the future. Note that the black sock is much larger; when washed and placed in the dryer of everyday existence, the white sock (our hopes and dreams) will be swallowed whole and will disappear.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:41:27 +0000

This is hilarious!!! Love it!

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:00:56 +0000

The toothpaste indicates an optimism that we can “cleanse” the world of the, so to speak, spinach in the teeth of mankind. However, the fact that the tube is crudely smooshed rather that rationally and carefully relieved of its inner purifying essence brings in that moment of doubt and inner chaos so often covered up by the blurring of the reality of this modern life (psycotropic medication). The dental floss is the endless search for certainty which we understand cannot be attained even by the cleansing pasty goodness of the elemental tube.

The socks? Sometimes a sock is just a sock. Or two.

By: Kate@AndThenIWasAMom

Kate@AndThenIWasAMom — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:27:55 +0000

It seems pretty obvious to me that the juxtaposition of the toothpaste and the tranqulizers indicates a hierarchical relationship between physical and mental health.

In other words, even those prone to occasional panic need to keep them choppers shiny.