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9 bottles of hand lotion serve as spouts for shooting jets of water within individual chairs. 12 tissue boxes quiver and shudder orgasmically, while another 6 empty tissue boxes with fleshy slits sit motionless below.
I see fountains as a way for nudity and sexuality to be out in the open without much controversy. The classical figurative fountain has become a cannon or container that allows sexuality and nudity to exist out in the open with minimal controversy. Figurative public sculpture has a certain invisibility to it, even though it can be incredibly erotic if isolated or put into a different context.
I see the office chair as embodying similar characteristics. When isolated I see the chair at face value, however when I see a home office chair, in close proximity to a bottle of hand lotion and a box of tissues, its other function is suddenly revealed. I realized this upon engaging in a lot of amateur webcam sex, taking notice how nearly all of the performer/participants were seated on a home office chair.
Technology has blurred the lines between home and work, business and pleasure. I am interested in how sex is enabled with much less risk or even effort, and how it can start to become “work” through that same accessibility combined with addiction.
This was the first iteration or sketch of a larger idea. I have many more plans for gooey goopy fluids beyond tapioca and hand lotion.
From http://thecuntoftheminotaur.tumblr.com/ :
Here, an erupting tapioca fountain is an incredibly attractive stand-in for a cumshot. It’s placement on a custom-upholstered, dusty rose office chair implies a body in prolonged ejaculation. It’s reference to the decor of business elicits cubicle/boardroom/guy-in-accounting fantasies which become pornographic when returning to the gushing, slopping, thick tapioca.
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Sculptural installation made in collaboration with Scott Andrew.
See the future, not as a distant apocalyptic dystopia, but as a playful shimmering reality that you can shape. This sculptural installation combines kinetic sculpture, video, and sound, by chronicling visions of the future through media from the past. The primary focus of this project involved the construction of a rotating mirrored crystal structure that is 6’ tall by 5’ in diameter. The crystal serves as a mash up between the crystal ball and a disco ball, by forecasting visions of the future in a setting that is referential to a dance floor. Four video projections reflect off of the crystal, enveloping the gallery in an optical swarm of video fragments that have the ability to cast viewers into a perceptual juxtaposition of meditation and nausea.
A major goal of the project is to blur the roles between the artwork and viewer; performer and participant. A mirrorball designates a space and distinguishes a dive bar from a ballroom. The objective is for our crystal ball to transform a space, and disrupt the passive relationship viewers often have with artwork.
The crystal reflects video as well as the image of the participants, creating a new environment where both the viewer and video become equal contributors to the artwork. Viewers are hypnotically drawn to the crystal, as if approaching a campfire, and tend to congregate around the object, constantly looking inward. However, there is a threshold, a point in which the viewer’s body is compelled to retract, as if the object’s element of danger is repelling them backward. Also linked to this work is a sense of loneliness that conjures a distant memory of being alone on the dancefloor in the awkward time frame when the music and lights are pounding but no one has yet arrived to the club.
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In the game of UFC violence is glamourous. I wanted to create a violent glamour of sorts.
Footage of Inside the Octagon on opening night of Fresh Baked Goods. Watch a teaser full version HERE
Inside The Octagon A combination or performance, and multi-media installation for Fresh Baked Goods in Pittsburgh PA. Semi-professional wrestlers and referees were hired to compete in submission grappling matches for an art audience. The rules set was a combination of regulation standards mixed with a few of my own personal requests. When there were no performances scheduled, a sculpture of two wrestlers was placed on the custom built mattress, and video footage of the match played on a monitor on an adjacent judges table.
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tiny 3D print version, able to be printed again and again, and left as a surprise in public places.
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This figure has had almost all of his sensory organs replaced by anuses, and has anuses sprouting in other new and unusual places. He has evolved to the point where he no longer needs butt cheeks, but has one solid cheek to enable maximum penetration and pleasure.
This sculpture is a fiberglass cast that was molded from a clay sculpt.
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Most of my most profound thoughts happen when in complete solitude. Oddly enough the bathroom is one of the few places where I truly feel alone and have a chance to meditate and have some self reflection. Some seek church as a place to seek enlightenment. I have had my share of organized religion so I built my own place to have religious experiences.
This is a fully functioning outhouse. The seat is made from a pulpit chair that used to belong to my grandfather, who was for his whole career, a United Church minister. The Holy Shit House resides in North-Western Ontario, and is still in use on a regular basis.
