2002

chromogenic prints mounted on aluminum

24"H x 20"W each

Blood Scarf depicts a scarf knit out of clear vinyl tubing. An intravenous device emerging out of the user's hand fills the scarf with blood. The implied narrative is a paradoxical one in which the device keeps the user warm with their blood while at the same time draining their blood drop by drop.

Exhibition Views

Texas Woman's University
Museum of Contemporary Art

Reviews

Fiberarts, 2007
Artweek, July / August 2005
Voir, February 10, 2005

"...an unnerving examination of attraction and repulsion, beauty and horror... Splan directs our attention to the grotesque... The photography is spare yet shows that material carries its meaning with it, regardless of how it is used. Blood, though beautiful in this knitted tube, is still abject and alarming. And being alarmed has its seductions..." (Self, The Pitch, 2007)

"...Splan combines people and medical paraphernalia into stinging image poems melding, à la Cronenberg, 'beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort.' Her cozy Blood Scarf extends the circulatory system outside the body into a fashion accessory...." (Cheng, Artweek, October 2003)

Special thanks to Tonya Solley Thornton