The triangle was a return to the idea of "a piece of the pie" from earlier works of mine. "When My Ship Comes In" is a sliced bed as a sailboat with its angled keel racing to a finish line. This scurrying is largely mental: psychological and intellectual. Much is written about this, but even within this we eat and sleep and use the toilet. We are all multi-tasking so much to meet the accelerated demands of the digital age and to hustle our potentialities. This is not only a depiction of physical toil and struggle which was my expected narrative of depression-era living as in Steinbeck’s work, but also a disconnection and fragmentation. I made these works with some cast body parts to literalize the body memory and experience in striving for meeting basic needs. It is this vacillation of embodiment (in and out of the body) that economic survival and striving brings that interests me. I looked at the varying personal narratives of life during the Great Depression of the 1930s compiled for the book Hard Times by Studs Terkel and was struck by how simultaneously corporeal and disembodied the voices were. Hard Times: Owed to Studs Terkel and All of UsĬontinuing my conversation on the subject of class and mobility in American culture, I produced Hard Times: Owed to Studs Terkel and All of Us.
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