Hobby Horse I
25"x15"x30" (depthxwidthxheight)
63.5cm x 38cm x 76cm
Wood, digitally printed silk organza, machine and hand stitching,
hair, double-faced satin ribbon
25"x15"x30" (depthxwidthxheight)
63.5cm x 38cm x 76cm
Wood, digitally printed silk organza, machine and hand stitching,
hair, double-faced satin ribbon
Emily McIntyre
Two horses make a team, and multiples can be bought and sold like so many things. Just the way this horse is made material with the support of underlying structure suggests commodity culture and a constructed species of packaging. Virtually real and easy to dismantle this horse and its counterpart serve as objects. The process of mapping and translating a three-dimensional body to a two-dimensional image and then building it back up to three-dimensional, relocates corporeality as paradoxically magical.
My process involves time spent gathering from everyday systems: observing how people shop, collecting things off the sidewalks, and looking at garments as determinant of fitting in and standing out. Primarily, I am concerned with referencing the human body in relation to its surroundings: whether the body completes the work or acts in comparison. |