1 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:32,380 so this piece once upon a time she said 2 00:00:29,410 --> 00:00:34,120 I'm not afraid and her enemies became 3 00:00:32,380 --> 00:00:36,490 afraid of her is a piece I have made 4 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:39,310 specifically for this exhibition I'm 5 00:00:36,490 --> 00:00:41,559 going to try to actually we make it for 6 00:00:39,310 --> 00:00:44,980 the places that the show is going to 7 00:00:41,559 --> 00:00:46,809 tour it's a work that really underlies 8 00:00:44,980 --> 00:00:49,900 the philosophy I kind of believe in 9 00:00:46,809 --> 00:00:51,820 which is that if you utter something 10 00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:53,739 that it will become if you make 11 00:00:51,820 --> 00:00:55,660 something you actually bring it to life 12 00:00:53,739 --> 00:00:59,230 and so she's got these three sprites 13 00:00:55,660 --> 00:01:01,290 these little robotic creature she Mara 14 00:00:59,230 --> 00:01:03,370 things following her and she's 15 00:01:01,290 --> 00:01:06,100 triumphantly getting away from them and 16 00:01:03,370 --> 00:01:08,200 it sort of expresses my own belief that 17 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:10,479 there are these problems and tragedies 18 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,430 and difficulties that follow every one 19 00:01:10,479 --> 00:01:14,740 of us and in this particular case this 20 00:01:12,430 --> 00:01:17,590 sort of triumphant warrior female and 21 00:01:14,740 --> 00:01:19,420 that she's been able to beat them and to 22 00:01:17,590 --> 00:01:20,830 run faster than them and she kind of 23 00:01:19,420 --> 00:01:23,740 escaped from them 24 00:01:20,830 --> 00:01:24,610 primarily because she said she's no 25 00:01:23,740 --> 00:01:27,550 longer afraid 26 00:01:24,610 --> 00:01:29,590 I love gloves I loved long love so I've 27 00:01:27,550 --> 00:01:31,840 chosen to make her arms sort of 28 00:01:29,590 --> 00:01:34,030 reptilian and snake-like using this tape 29 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:36,580 she has a coyote head Coyotes are 30 00:01:34,030 --> 00:01:38,979 incredibly powerful in in a lot of 31 00:01:36,580 --> 00:01:41,500 Native American and indigenous American 32 00:01:38,979 --> 00:01:44,260 folklore and history and cosmology and 33 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:46,420 it's also the word that is used to 34 00:01:44,260 --> 00:01:48,490 describe people who take a person from 35 00:01:46,420 --> 00:01:50,830 one side of the border to another 36 00:01:48,490 --> 00:01:52,560 illegally one might say the coyote has 37 00:01:50,830 --> 00:01:54,670 always had this really interesting 38 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:57,670 reverberation in my mind and then she 39 00:01:54,670 --> 00:01:59,710 also has contact paper in the form of a 40 00:01:57,670 --> 00:02:02,970 sort of fake wood that goes from her 41 00:01:59,710 --> 00:02:07,180 chest sort of like this huge wonderful 42 00:02:02,970 --> 00:02:10,179 belly backside that that is like a horse 43 00:02:07,180 --> 00:02:11,410 and a snake and a dragon all at once but 44 00:02:10,179 --> 00:02:14,430 she's got all these different media but 45 00:02:11,410 --> 00:02:14,430 it's watercolor first 46 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:25,120 the power for me in this is to keep the 47 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:27,430 figure the story of female in the center 48 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:30,340 to keep discussing and talking about 49 00:02:27,430 --> 00:02:31,840 women as active as protagonists good bad 50 00:02:30,340 --> 00:02:33,879 whatever it is that they are that they 51 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,940 are part of the reason that we're here 52 00:02:33,879 --> 00:02:37,900 that's important for me not to kind of 53 00:02:35,940 --> 00:02:40,950 marginalizes and give us bits on the 54 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:40,950 side here and there 55 00:03:46,290 --> 00:03:48,349 you