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Artist Statement

In recent years, I have become increasingly interested in the environment and the plastic beauty, plastic nature, plastic flowers and plastic procreation of our consumer culture. “The Garden,” is an artificial nature one can enter. A quilt of floral dresses covers the ceiling and walls, creating a canopy for the garden growing beneath. Floors are flooded with blossoms and bunny rabbits, rugs of stuffed animals, skinned and sewn

together. A floral love seat sits among clusters of consumer commodities that seem to have grown over every square inch of surface. Lamps are encrusted with plastic daisies. Tall bunny rabbits centaurs smothered in fake flowers stand guard. “The Garden” centers around ideas of artificial beauty and images associated with fertility and funerary rites.

References

Artforum, 1996

Artnet.com, 1996

Village Voice, 1996

TENbyTEN Interview, 2000

Portia Munson CV