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Drop My Body, 2021
Paraffin wax, cotton wicks, leather dye
32 x 28 x 4 in
In Drop My Body, a dejected leather jacket lays on the ground, but upon closer inspection, one can see burning wicks have begun to bore through the wax object. The jacket is at once both a ritualized commemoration of loss, of radicality, of belonging, and a destruction of a symbol with a conflicting history. The jacket is destroyed, liberated even by this transformation. Maybe transformed by its destruction. The tight, cool, sleek object now lies puddled, fluid and pouring.