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