Sculpture

Altars
Images

Hand wrought Asian furniture, mass-produced Occidental ornament.

Eastern altar meets Western cake decoration.

Laika
Laika

Laika (detail)

Bhlu Ahltar

Bhlu Ahltar (detail)

Breeze Catchers
Images

Fashion meets architecture meets nature.

Zoetic in gentle wind.

Simultaneous interior/exterior, tangible/intangible, object and space.

Aviva & LuShia (Background), Breeze Catchers

Breeze Catchers (detail)

Breeze Catchers (detail)

Breeze Catchers & TAHLA (Background)

Cakes
Images

The CAKES serve frothed up castles of delusion, hyperbolic princess-lands that ooze the saccharine, nuclear-pink glow of the girl toy aisles in FAO Schwarz.

Hypnotic sizzle. Glamour Trance freezes time, stunts emotional development, yet supremely entertains.

The CAKES embody both entrancing appearances, and the intoxication they kindle.

Cakes
Cakes

Veritas
Veritas

Veritas
Veritas

Vanitas
Vanitas

Vanitas (Detail)

Vanitas (Detail)

Vanitas (Detail)

Vanitas (Detail)

Pink Loaves

Double Happiness

Double Happiness (Detail)

Caprices
Images

Lattice, filigree... tactile materiality.

Texturology.

A language of perforated space.

Lei Lei
Lei Lei

Lei Lei (Detail)

Nuharhu
Nuharhu

Nuharhu (Detail)

Nuharhu (Detail)

Nuharhu (Detail)

Prinsaessa

Niu Kua
Niu Kua

Creatures
Images

Overstated, indulgent in color and embellishment, the Creatures speak to inane, unseemly emotion.

Angelique

Khaya
Khaya

Kisu
Kisu

Starling (Installation)

Starling

Starling (Detail)

Starling (Detail)

Tiffy
Tiffy

Tiffy & Jaffy

Jaffy & Lusterature

Big Igloo

Big Igloo (Detail)

Party Favors
Images

Concoctions of hair accessories and décor accoutrements. (inchoate series)

Party Favor - Blue Check

Party Favor - Blue Check 2

Party Favor - Blue Check 2

Party Favor - Bird

Party Favor - Sayonara

Party Favor - Grenalia

Patisserie
Images

Spruced up, poised to please. Like itsy-bitsy, supra-beribboned pets on Madison Avenue, the footstools are prim, preened, and poofed coquettes or wannabe princesses.

Arabella

Belize
Belize

Clothilde

Fatty
Fatty

Karmin
Karmin

Patisserie 3 of 21

Patisserie 7 of 21

Satresine

Patisserie Chinoise
Images

The attempt to reduce whole countries to over-embellished tchotchkes reflects an American eye-candy, shopping-hypnotic mentality.

Fashioned with hair clips and beads from Beijing, Patisserie Chinoise (Chinese bakery) is 'Disneyland' Asia with little veracity.

China is used as a springboard for critiques of Western hubris regarding 'the other'.

Bedahla
Bedahla

Gala
Gala

Kasja
Kasja

Lei-Tsu
Lei-Tsu

Ping Ping, Ko-Wei, Nai Nai

Ping Ping

Shia Shiung (wandering thoughts)

Shia Shiung (Detail)
Shia Shiung (wandering thoughts)(Detail)

Sconces
Images

Ostentatious, opulent blast.

Decor for decor's sake.

Rhydal
Rhydal

Rhydal (detail)

Scrolls
Images

Hung two inches out from the wall, nouveau scrolls query contemporary values.

Rhed Scroll

Lahn Tian

Clip Quilt (In Progress)

Stacks
Images

Over-stated pavilion of dream to offbeat beacon.

Nhansshe

Nhansshe (Detail)

Khi Khi
Khi Khi

Nyassa
Nyassa

Nyassa (Detail)

Nyassa (Detail)

Shasta & Nyassa

Shasta (Detail)

TaiRhi
TaiRhi

TaiRhi (Detail)

Towers
Images

Fashioning a lyrical appearance, each florid tower overcompensates for flaws of character and culture.

Aviva & LuShia (Background), Breeze Catchers

LuShia
LuShia

LuShia (detail)

3 Towers

Aviva - Front
Aviva (Front)

Aviva - Back
Aviva (Back)

Aviva - Detail
Aviva (Detail)

Lida
Lida

Meung Shei

Meung Shei (Detail)

Meung Shei (Detail)

Meung Shei (Detail)

Oblivion

Oblivion (Detail)

Oblivion (Detail)

TAHLA
TAHLA

TAHLA (Detail)

Wysteria

Wysteria (Detail)