My Phone Tells Me To Do Bad Things

2008 • Punch Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Telephones have changed our lives forever. You can’t put that genie back in the box.

I spent an entire summer asking everyone I met if I could draw their phone. I assembled an entire sketchbook of drawings of phones, and from that, began to draw, paint, embroider, and cut phones from metal.

Analog Phone- Carved wood and velvet

New Standards of Feminine Beauty- Inkjet and paint on paper

Cell Phone Bugs- Plasma cut and powdercoated steel

Phone Wearing Panties - Inkjet print of scan

Phone Wearing Sweater - Inkjet print of scan

Phone Wearing Hat - Inkjet print of scan

Phone Wearing Pants - Inkjet print of scan

Connected- Embroidery on fabric

Slave to My Phone- Embroidery on fabric

Ball and Chain- Embroidery on fabric

Can’t Get Away- Embroidery on fabric

NailPhone- Embroidery on fabric, steel

Granny Panties- Embroidery on blue tarp

BeePhone- Embroidery on fabric, inkjet and paint

ScorpionPhone- Embroidery on fabric, inkjet and paint