TransOrphics
2016-2020, deconstructed, reconstructed furries, hand stitched.
Transorphics are a series of deconstructed furries, and a score for coming to terms with my naรฏve relationship to nature. This series stems from both an early love of stuffed animals and the seemingly vast, pristine, wilderness I experienced as a child camping with my family in the 1960โs and 70โs.
Through the process of deconstructing these petroleum based, mass-produced furries that pollute and kill the environments that sustain the wildlife they represent, and reconstructing them by hand, naรฏve relationships are transformed into not necessarily sinister but wise, uncanny oracles or specimens? (I still feel love for them) of the dystopian present, signaling an unsettling relationship to nature in the midst of system collapse that can not be ignored.