For an appropriation project I created a stuffed-animal self-portrait out of my old clothes. I was going for cute and cuddly but ended up with creepy and odd, as usual. I plan to make more of these, of the people I know, from their old clothes.
Ryan -- looks like a quilt corpse. Evokes the image of old women sitting around this big corpse, making it somehow into a quilt. If old women could make the man of their dreams quilt-style it couldn't live. It'd be a quilt corpse.
Interestingly enough Bill, after I made the stuffed figure I was looking through art history slides and found Katharina Detzel with self-made figure, 1914. She was institutionalized in Germany for schizophrenia. Apparently she did exactly that, quilted the man of her dreams.
This is wonderful work. I look forward to seeing more examples.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Tom, more examples to come soon.
ReplyDeleteRyan -- looks like a quilt corpse. Evokes the image of old women sitting around this big corpse, making it somehow into a quilt. If old women could make the man of their dreams quilt-style it couldn't live. It'd be a quilt corpse.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough Bill, after I made the stuffed figure I was looking through art history slides and found Katharina Detzel with self-made figure, 1914. She was institutionalized in Germany for schizophrenia. Apparently she did exactly that, quilted the man of her dreams.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to her image:
http://animulavagula.hautetfort.com
/images/medium_Katharina_Detzel.2.jpg
very beautiful very poignant.
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You can see the logo of Katharina D. here.
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