Mom Doll (2016)


photo book
collaboration with Helen Westergren
Like lambs to the slaughter,

    The reality of complete suffering. It starts out like a contained allergic reaction that slowly spreads to the rest of the body. The burning body will eventually surrender to the fever shift. Familiar death spasms are the result of the mutually constitutive and mutually reinforcing coincidence of late capitalism and global warming.

We throw sawdust where the blood puddle lie.

    There are many ways we check in with capitalism, whether the objective is to embrace it or refuse it. The feminist reorganization of traditional systems of power is a contradiction. It's platonic form both embraces and refuses capitalism.

The day we plant the seed

    There is a symbolic, yet very real relationship between raw materials, power dynamics and networks. My work considers our complex interfacing with technology to control, mimic and exploit. It is a version of consumption which mixes the perception of the thing, and the thing itself.

Is not the day we eat the fruit

  The work itself is a dysfunctional temporal system. There is form in movement, and the form, or application of material resources, is dependent on and supplemental to time. I work with a collection of nostalgic mass-produced goods that tell time better than my memories: techno-saturated, transhistorical motion.

mwagner1608@gmail.com
Brooklyn, NY
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