Happy to See You, 2024; stuffed fabric, fake fur, inflated pvc balls, wire; 70" x 28" x 16"
Prototype sculpture for a playful Dr. Seuss-like garden. A forest of whimsical tree-organisms at varying scales invites viewers to navigate between translucent blooming heads that glow from within. Each sculptural form celebrates unabashed sensuality through joyously protruding fur-tipped appendages that acknowledge their gleeful phallic energy.
The installation adapts to site-specific architecture—some creatures could emerge from walls like parasites, others suspend from high ceilings, creating multiple encounters. Dramatic lighting casts provocative shadows that amplify the work's cheeky eroticism while maintaining alien otherness.
Viewers peer voyeuristically into transparent craniums, discovering soft internal worlds that could be neural networks or digestive systems—ambiguous organs processing unknown nourishment. Are these creatures feeding on light, desire, or consciousness itself? The piece creates psychedelic encounters with entities that might consume our attention as sustenance—a meditation on desire, consumption, and what feeds the alien mind.
