hand latch hooked soft sculptures of oversized antipsychotic and antidepressant pills
Artwork

Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft

2000
latch hook on canvas, polyester filling
11 H × 36 W × 11 D in (27.94 H × 91.44 W × 27.94 D cm) each

Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft is a series of oversized antipsychotics and antidepressants pills rendered as latch hook soft sculptures. The tedious and repetitive nature of the simple craft technique provides a mind-altering placebo effect itself. The playful textile medium situates increasingly familiar pharmaceutical drugs within associations of comfort while evoking their ubiquity and proliferation in the domestic landscape.

Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft is a series of oversized antipsychotics and antidepressants pills rendered as latch hook soft sculptures. The tedious and repetitive nature of the simple craft technique provides a mind-altering placebo effect itself. The playful textile medium situates increasingly familiar pharmaceutical drugs within associations of comfort while evoking their ubiquity and proliferation in the domestic landscape.

Craft Magazine

...art that’s fascinating and sometimes shocking . . . a wide variety of highly imaginative work: psychiatric drugs represented in hooked-rug pillows, embroidery on what appears to be skin stretched on hoops, pillows made of meat...wildly creative in such a precise way...

Ladyfest
SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Limn Art Gallery
ArtsWestchester Gallery
Des Lee Gallery

Exhibitions: Limn Gallery, ArtsWestchester, Des Lee Gallery, Ladyfest Olympia, SFMOMA Artists Gallery