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Sculpture
Bountiful LIC Memorial Carpet
Avestan
Tenacious Vajdahunyad
LIC
Ode to Disappearing Sculpture
Food Art
Delicacies
It Must Have Been
Garden of Delight
Microcosms
Golden Cities
Drawings
2006
2004
2004
2002
Life After Death MFA Installation
Hand Dances
Early Sculptures
Armenia related
Proverb illustrations
Toast making video
Wish Chandelier
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The Life after Death installation is a satirical personal essay based on my experience of making art and of completing graduate work at Hunter College in 1998. I use humor, fantasy, and phony narratives to playfully comment on the absurdities and contradictions within the art-making enterprise. Inventiveness and imagination compensate for my lack of resources, and lead me to explore non-traditional crafts in an obsessive manner.

The installation begins with a body crushed by a pedestal; a wall label reads "Artist dies in a gallery accident, but continues to produce work." Red tubing leads from the artist's hand to numerous sculptures further in the space, where a sense of chaos reigns: pedestals are overturned and tiny biomorphic forms abound. The highly-crafted organic forms suggest a natural, regenerative force (see "Ongoing Plank of Creation" a red-velvet-covered plank of wood teeming with miniature sculptures) that runs counter to the sense of decay and entropy seen in pieces like the "Downward Spiral of Extinct Art" (a spiral form decorated with slides of older work with labels detailing the circumstances of the "extinction"). Other highlights--"Beyond West Chelsea" (a revolving sphere of nail polish-bedecked lima beans placed in a desert as a model for a public art project); "Art-Making Fantasies" (tiny nail-polish paintings as phony slides of unrealizable art projects: a swing between two skyscrapers or an underwater gallery); and "Please don't step on the artist" (a small replica of my head revolving in the center of a target in the middle of the floor).