Tuesday, December 28, 2010

"Carving, cutting, breaking, shaping, tracing, folding, skinning"





If you've ever seen Jessica Harrison's work, I'm sure you did a double take. All of her work visually interrupts a familiar object with her grotesque obsession with the human body, especially the viscera. She creates and manipulates a human flesh like material to make mini-furniture, sculpts mini mouths into flowers, or applies fly legs as fake lashes.







































In her latest works she uses traditional, once adored, antique figurines and re-forms them to expose their insides-- leaving a clear message of transgression and shows a glimpse of the artist's psyche.


































Further reading on Fly-lashes: NY Daily News

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*All images taken from artists website

**Title quoted from artists website

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