Punchings Bags

Year 2021

Pieces 2

Each: 18” x 4”, diptych, variable edition of 3

Leather, beading 12’ x 14’, variable edition of 3

Leather

In Punching Bags (2021), the tension between scale, ornamentation, and utility is acutely at odds. What happens when a punching bag, designed for one specific brute purpose, is magnified and ornamented with beads and alluring textiles? Through this elongation and decoration, notions of violence and aggression are largely stripped from the now-art object. Instead, viewers are left to admire new elegant details embedded via beadwork. Through this scrutiny, viewers must also attempt to rectify the scale of the object — something that once mirrored the scale of a human body now towers and overwhelms. Punching Bags brings conversations of craftsmanship, absurdity, and elegance to the forefront through the larger-than-life object.