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series: a body to improve the method of time

I will hold you in cloth
I will hold you in cloth
  • I will hold you in cloth
  • your mouth an empty gill what allowable limit - to not remain too long
  • 14x11"
  • gouache, oil pastel on paper
  • 2007
So that I could butcher myself from the picture of food
So that I could butcher myself from the picture of food
We will not be afraid of rolling in butter or goose confit
We will not be afraid of rolling in butter or goose confit
  • We will not be afraid of rolling in butter or goose confit
  • because all is ourselves in a single oak tree ignited with autumn
  • 11x14"
  • oil pastel and colored pencil on paper
  • 2007
  • Sold
Where the legs and tail are joined
Where the legs and tail are joined
  • Where the legs and tail are joined
  • there is a place for correct facial expressions
  • 11x14"
  • oil pastel and colored pencil on paper
  • 2006
I paint my claws red and green
I paint my claws red and green
  • I paint my claws red and green
  • and the feathers come off in the sink
  • 11x14"
  • oil pastel and colored pencil on paper
  • 2006
  • Sold
What was grown of wings and feet and eyes
What was grown of wings and feet and eyes
  • What was grown of wings and feet and eyes
  • was jelly wrapped around a body of cottage cheese
  • 11x14"
  • oil pastel and colored pencil on paper
  • 2006
  • Sold
+ View Statement

(2006-2007) A collaboration between Kelly Packer and Adrian Kien. In this project we are working in a loose fashion. We started with a theme centered around taxidermy and progressed independently outwards. They are drawings of animals in various fragmentary states, unfinished animals with styrofoam guts and limbs attached and wrapped with string. Layers of skin and cloth glimpse an underlying structure of wire and glue. This is about trying to hold on to life, recreating it with everyday materials. Piecing a life back together with twine, plaster and bones. It's not supposed to be pretty. But it is. A different kind of beauty. A terrifying beauty.

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