Jessica Joslin:A Menagerie of Brass and Bone There seems to be an ever-growing trend to both humanize animals (particularly pets), to the point of giving them organic food and worrying about their health care perhaps more than our own, while simultaneously continuing our eradication of species that we don’t see as necessary (go research the blob fish). Jessica Joslin ruptures that binary with her haunting, yet delightful hybrids. Made of bone, brass, and found objects, Joslin re-forges fantastical creatures that are at once curious, frightened, mounted or performing — being caught between use value and sentience. Take for instance Stardust, where a cat-like skeleton beings to crawl out of its mount. The ears appear to be screwed onto what might be kitty armor, and though the nails are filed down from being claws, still, its gaze is as if seeing its prey close enough for the kill. Or is it a futuristic steam-punk construction stepping out of a time portal, wary of what it will encounter?
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:46:27 +0000
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