The tradition of making by hand indicates a visceral awareness of the limits of the body – how weight and form relate to the size of a limb, the look of a truncated torso, or a defeated latex egg carton. Cast from life, the objects coax us from the comfort of routine into a newly imagined world of things. 

Subversive and craft-y, their ‘by hand’ quality displaces them from the private space of the domestic into a space of alterity in the hopes of drawing the viewer’s attention to the ways one can be influenced by habituated expectations of the objects featured here, and to the mechanics of such representation.

Objects are the facts of us. Looking through objects – an exercise in discharging them from what one believes they convey, or how they ought to function – forces them to reveal what they do. A book that disturbs and makes one wish it had not been read; a lumpy mattress that leaves the frazzled sleeper miserable in the morning; food poisoning: these encounters with thingness are instantiations of an experience with objects, whose purpose has been checked and thwarted by something that provokes the unexpected.