"12 Toasters" is a set of twelve photo-embroideries using the same image of a toaster on a counter. Each "toaster" shows a half-imagined, half-real illustration of hair swirling around a mundane spot of the kitchen, a place someone might pass daily without thinking much about it. The repetition suggests the normalizing of one's unsettling experiences of reality—a banal marker of another day.
The artist's hair is sewn into the photograph to make the drawings, using a strand of hair as thread. Avoiding any glue or fixative maintains the unruliness of the hair, lending to the tension and mania of each chaotic image.
“Toaster 02,” 2018. Artist’s hair sewn into photograph.
Detail of “Toaster 03”
“12 Toasters” at Petty Cash in Bushwick, October 2021.
“Toaster 12,” 2021. Artist’s hair sewn into photograph.