My sculptures use everyday materials to make a satirical comment on the nature of play and work in the face of rapidly changing technology and a culture where the “must haves” of today become the obsolete trash of tomorrow. I invoke hope through the repurposing of materials and revival of heroic mythologies to promise rescue or sound warnings. Homage to Nike is an interactive sculpture assembled from old toys and electronics that responds to the viewer. Like “Winged Victory”, she stands on a pedestal of transport but when activated by the viewer’s presence, she can only gyrate to the left and right in time to Dudley Do-right’s theme song. Acknowledging the failures of technology, the figure still holds jingling keys to express the courage of hope that arises from the detritus of the present. In a farcical comment on petro-capitalism, Atlas Spun, is an altered toy truck that holds up the world and spins while claiming to have serious power.
