2000

hand latch-hooked rug, canvas, polyester filling

24"H x 48"W x 48"D / each 11"H x 36"W x 11"D

Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft is a group of large pillows crafted out of hand latch-hooked rugs, which have been sewn together and stuffed. These soft, oversized anti-psychotics and anti-depressants provide a different kind of comfort than their prescription counterparts. The time consuming nature of the latch-hook process provides a sufficiently mind-numbing effect. Latch hooking is a simple but tedious craft that has traditionally been used to depict idealized and romanticized images from domesticity and nature.

Exhibit Views:

SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery
Limn Art Gallery
Fuzzy Logic

Exhibition Catalog:

"...it could be argued that Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft arrived on the cusp of the contemporary DIY movement... as mood-altering drugs have become increasingly common, we now read them as iconic objects–like modernday Campbell’s soup cans– whose cultural significance reaches beyond their literal use." (Audrey Mast, Fuzzy Logic Catalog)

Articles / Reviews:

"...Her small installation... invites the viewer to cozy up to the happy promise of the drugs' palliative effects. Large, fluffy and inviting, the pieces' seductive surfaces belie their potentially dangerous impact on individuals and a society under chemical siege..." (Self, The Pitch, 2007)

"...a homespun and wonderfully bizarre piece... Far from the image of pills mass-produced, cold and inhuman, Splan's versions looked like something to snuggle up with on a chilly evening...." (Brenneman, Artweek, September 2003)