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 constitutes a nursery. Each piece consists of a found, rusted object alongside attendant elements made of steel wool. The room is set up for a newborn — to be dressed, to play, and to sleep; yet the outcome is prickly, itchy, grimy, even hazardous. These pieces join others of mine that address the broken, 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 — waits, protected only by a torn steel-wool mosquito net (Yellow Prince).
