basket cases
A basket case, they say, is someone who has lost all four limbs in a war and must be carried off the field in a basket instead of on a stretcher. Or it's someone who is so anxious that they are unable to function normally.
Other words for basket case: whack job, freak, wingnut, weirdo, kook, fruitcake, eccentric.
It's what I called these sculptures when I started making them: basket cases. These days the word "basket" makes me think of this quote:
"It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself." -Anne Carson
- what a healthy girl, and such plentiful organs
- it was dark, there were teeth
- just don't
- effigy
- wardrobe malfunction
- dance in the body you have
- changeling
- the thing with feathers
- the hunter
- it's not a tumor
- the origin of the world
- i know what i know
- how bees work
- butterfly soup
- bad signal
- the burning bridge
- lumpy crossing
- swarm