clockwise from top: "Flutter Nutter" (detail), 2003, "Crushed" (detail), 2004, "Neapolitan Sunset" (detail) 2003
As part of the now disbanded collective, Bucky and Fluff's Craft Factory, Allyson Mitchell has been using this over-the-top artsy-crafty style for awhile, with a blowyourmind, sequins and macramé, girl-positive, glitter-glue and plastic toys, quantity over quality approach that's always been fun but pretty light fare. Now, in The Fluff Stands Alone, Mitchell has focussed that frenetic energy into a really solid body of work. This big, ambitious series of wall hangings and bedspreads reinvents the women of Playboy cartoons as fuzzy, happy, flocked and fun-furred beasts. Mitchell's sense of kittenish play is still here in spades, but the work has taken on a satisfying weight and presence. I resisted the tempation to rub my face on the art, but I'm sure others did not.
Hey Law-breaker - Let's go check this show out this week.
Sally. How much do you love cats?
How great is it that the women of playboy cartoons have been reinvented in fun fur no less? How labour intensive for such a banal result - this stuff is real sad , sad sac ... it makes me wanna cry.
Bibiota consists of two separate interactive works using children's toys. Reflective Loop, a computer-activated wall of "Furby" toys that react to viewers' proximity, is already completed. The second, Live Pelt, is a piece of women's fashion apparel made entirely from previously owned "Tickle Me Elmo" dolls, which have been "eviscerated" to create the sculpture. Live Pelt also includes a scrapbook of photos from the previous owners of the dolls. When Live Pelt is touched or worn, it vibrates and giggles, providing a grotesquely humorous experience for the viewer. Additional elements of the Bibiota installation a series of photographs of young girls wearing commercially available Tickle Me Elmo costumes and a video of Heaton herself wearing the Live Pelt sculpture in public.
http://www.channel.creative-capital.org/project_426.html
hmmm, eviscerating...
It brought to mind my mother's mink coats, ya, I know, bad-bad, I agree, but when I was really young I loved being the daughter of a soft fur bearing creature.
Tino has a point. I otten wake up in the morning with cat-hair in my eyes due to lax restrictions on feline proximity to the pillow. Who else here has ever vacuumed their bed?
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clockwise from top: "Flutter Nutter" (detail), 2003, "Crushed" (detail), 2004, "Neapolitan Sunset" (detail) 2003
As part of the now disbanded collective, Bucky and Fluff's Craft Factory, Allyson Mitchell has been using this over-the-top artsy-crafty style for awhile, with a blowyourmind, sequins and macramé, girl-positive, glitter-glue and plastic toys, quantity over quality approach that's always been fun but pretty light fare. Now, in The Fluff Stands Alone, Mitchell has focussed that frenetic energy into a really solid body of work. This big, ambitious series of wall hangings and bedspreads reinvents the women of Playboy cartoons as fuzzy, happy, flocked and fun-furred beasts. Mitchell's sense of kittenish play is still here in spades, but the work has taken on a satisfying weight and presence. I resisted the tempation to rub my face on the art, but I'm sure others did not.
- sally mckay 2-09-2004 7:36 am
Hey Law-breaker - Let's go check this show out this week.
- nanmac (guest) 2-09-2004 7:10 pm
Sally. How much do you love cats?
- Tino (guest) 2-10-2004 1:16 am
How great is it that the women of playboy cartoons have been reinvented in fun fur no less? How labour intensive for such a banal result - this stuff is real sad , sad sac ... it makes me wanna cry.
- Robert C (guest) 2-11-2004 6:43 pm
Bibiota consists of two separate interactive works using children's toys. Reflective Loop, a computer-activated wall of "Furby" toys that react to viewers' proximity, is already completed. The second, Live Pelt, is a piece of women's fashion apparel made entirely from previously owned "Tickle Me Elmo" dolls, which have been "eviscerated" to create the sculpture. Live Pelt also includes a scrapbook of photos from the previous owners of the dolls. When Live Pelt is touched or worn, it vibrates and giggles, providing a grotesquely humorous experience for the viewer. Additional elements of the Bibiota installation a series of photographs of young girls wearing commercially available Tickle Me Elmo costumes and a video of Heaton herself wearing the Live Pelt sculpture in public.
http://www.channel.creative-capital.org/project_426.html
- anonymous (guest) 2-11-2004 6:48 pm
hmmm, eviscerating...
- Robert C (guest) 2-11-2004 8:14 pm
It brought to mind my mother's mink coats, ya, I know, bad-bad, I agree, but when I was really young I loved being the daughter of a soft fur bearing creature.
- LM (guest) 2-12-2004 6:16 am
Tino has a point. I otten wake up in the morning with cat-hair in my eyes due to lax restrictions on feline proximity to the pillow. Who else here has ever vacuumed their bed?
- sally mckay 2-12-2004 7:22 am