2017-2021
Blue prince:
Found object (iron tools cabinet), iron wire, steel wool
Cabinet: h: 87 cm, w: 66 cm, d: 30 cm ; Drawer: h: 15 cm, w: 47 cm, d: 47 cm
Photography: Eli Posner
Red prince:
Found object (waste container), steel wool
h: 75 cm, w: 90 cm, d: 90 cm
Photography: Eli Posner
Yellow Prince:
Found object (waste container), iron pole, steel wool
h: 180 cm, w: 200 cm, d: 170 cm
Photography: Doris Arkin
This series of works presents a nursery where each piece incorporates found, rusted objects alongside elements crafted from steel wool. While the room shows preparedness for a newborn’s arrival—equipped for dressing, play, and sleep—the resulting environment is prickly, grimy, and hazardous. These Princes join my other works that address the failure to fulfill the unuttered promise of a happy childhood.
A tool cabinet has been turned into a changing commode, stocked with rolls of steel-wool thread, prepared for knitting some presumably warm garment for an infant (Blue Prince). A baby playpen has been fashioned from a former waste container, padded with a sheet of steel wool (Red Prince), and a crib – another rusted container – is protected only by a torn steel-wool mosquito net (Yellow Prince).
A baby is born into a place that appears welcoming, perhaps well-intended, yet remains unable to offer comfort or protection.
