Dummy Tree, 2024
2024
sculpture
8' x 10' x 2'
stuffed fabric, cotton socks, pulleys, rope, felt, wire
Dummy Tree
Dummy Tree begins with the body parts of earlier works — the padded white limbs and red-striped athletic socks of Dummy and Sucka — and lets them grow. Suspended from the ceiling by rope and pulleys, a single trunk of stuffed white fabric branches upward and outward, each fork terminating in a red sock: toes curled, ankles striped, limbs reaching like a winter tree stripped of its leaves. What was once a surrogate body has gone feral. The form holds both the botanical and the anatomical without committing to either — it could be a coral polyp, a nervous system, a leafless oak. Rooted to the floor in a single red foot, it stretches toward ten directions at once, as if the sculpture discovered it could proliferate, and did.
GenAI inspiration for Dummy Tree using Sucka
Sucka, 2013, Dummy
Dummy Installation, 2013 and Oankali
Bedtime Stories for Oankali V2, 2024 image prompts
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ComfyUI workflows
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