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| Media: |
| wood sculpture and mixed media | |
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| Brickbottom Artists Building
1 Fitchburg St. C101
Somerville, MA 02143
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| Contact: |
| (617) 591-0378
artist@jessica-straus.com
http://www.jessica-straus.com
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| Statement: |
| When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, during one of those typical "what does your dad do?" conversations (of course, it was understood that our moms didn't do anything!) my tent-mate, Henrietta, told the group her father was a spatula handle maker. No one batted an eyelash. My only thought at the time was, "Oh yeah, I guess someone has to make those things." Now such a declaration would seem preposterous. Spatula handles are just cranked out by the zillions, machine-molded with seemingly no human intervention, void of character and personality. No one's dad makes those one at a time, much less for a living! In my "Widget" series, I'm honoring Henrietta's dad, the individual maker, leaving his own mark on the world of small things. By marrying a gadget from a couple generations ago with my own hand-carved interventions I'm stretching definitions of function, celebrating invention, putting in a plug for the quirkiness of the individual and thumbing my nose at mass production, big box distribution and mindless consumerism. | |
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