Insight: "Dysfunctional Dollhouse"

This multimedia piece is one out of a series of three, all bearing the same title. "Dysfunctional Dollhouse" plays with ideas including consumerism, excess, and home-making. I organized the composition to feel frazzled and maze-like. The viewer's eye is hopefully sent like a ping pong ball bouncing from one luxury/comfort to the next.

My work often considers consumerism and its place in the development of the self.

It has much in common with a stream-of-consciousness poem I wrote, called "Chips":

Abundance lacking profundity

Gathers masses

Built from single use plastics

Novelties in great quantities

Made new by machines

Made old by hands

Anthropocene

The Spleen

of Paris

World fair

Happy meal prize

Stomping through

Trash like dry leaves

Culture made crispy

&irresistibly unsatisfying

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