CORN SQUARES

Installation view at Yale University MFA studio

CORN SQUARES
Corn sprouts, paper.

Corn sprouts are growing out of square pieces of paper. All that they need to grow is to be watered. An intense sweet smell fills the room. The square configuration seems arbitrary. Ironically it resembles the patches of our modern agricultural landscape.

The process of growth is so strong and fast, so full of life. Watching it is captivating; but there is no permanency to any of the continuously changing phases within this life process. The need to preserve that very perfect "moment", to stop it in time, to control it, led me to the use of preserved animals in my later works.