The Libido Wears a Blue Tuxedo
Installation at the Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston
Through April 25, 2009
Courting rituals and the trappings of romance reflect the competence with which a society controls its raw sexual urges. Valentine's Day is the annual audit of the program.
I like to examine curious aspects of our culture and both critique and celebrate their absurd qualities. My thesis installation is an allegorical first date in which cultural tropes and clichés have triumphed utterly over human nature. Here, love is an apparition fluxing between pretty and grotesque, innocent and obscene, silly and creepy.