my sin, my soul, my tangle of thorns, 2010, girl's boots, tights, hair-tie and socks, artificial and artist's hair, fabric
This title was taken from a paragraph in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” (1955), a controversial novel where the protagonist, a middle-aged man becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl. Here a disfigured and anonymous figure of a girl is shown standing among a garden of hair. I use hair as a metaphor for memory and history-- an outgrowth, both beautiful and abject, yet continually regenerative over time. As time goes by, the hair continues to fall off the figure's torso to add to the garden below and spread among the floors.
This title was taken from a paragraph in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” (1955), a controversial novel where the protagonist, a middle-aged man becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl. Here a disfigured and anonymous figure of a girl is shown standing among a garden of hair. I use hair as a metaphor for memory and history-- an outgrowth, both beautiful and abject, yet continually regenerative over time. As time goes by, the hair continues to fall off the figure's torso to add to the garden below and spread among the floors.