LUSH INTERIORS
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LUSH INTERIORS is a collection of mixed media works aimed at exploring sensual machines, a term the artist uses to describe the mechanized trappings of modern life, as we all become increasingly enmeshed with our gadgetry. Common household appliances burst apart to reveal human anatomy and vegetation, both in various states of bloom and decay. From a distance, the works appear as vibrantly colored, otherworldly scenes, but a closer viewing reveals grim details: human teeth and headless birds, rotting tissue and melting organs.
The extravagantly macabre, though often comical, images represent the manner in which our intended conveniences often become burdens that weigh us down and define us in unintended ways.
Lush Interiors features direct to substrate collage prints on birch plywood. The prints are intricately milled and cut by a CNC router, and then the multilayered, three-dimensional pieces are assembled using common hardware components, like nuts and bolts.
Tapestry Before The Gates
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Nylon Print and 3D Assemblage
40.5" x 40.25" x 120" x 5.5"
MISTAKEN FOR TEXTILES
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Print and 3D Assemblage
36" x 40" x 4.5"
TENDING THE TYPING POOL
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Print and 3D Assemblage
28.5" x 40" x 5.5"
Life At THE PERFUME COUNTER
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Print and 3D Assemblage
40" x 38" x 4"
Consumer power
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Print and 3D Assemblage
30" x 33" x 4.5"
Tune your vitals
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Print and 3D Assemblage
27.5" x 32.5" x 7"
PARTS & LUXURY
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Print and 3D Assemblage
30" x 48" x 6.5"
Evelyn’s Permitted Plains
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Print and 3D Assemblage
22" x 30" x 6.5"
PAX IN THE VOID
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Print and 3D Assemblage
22" x 30" x 4"
Dial 9 for utopia
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Multi-Layered Birch Plywood
Print and 3D Assemblage
22" x 30" x 4"
Apollo in dust
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0.75" Birch Plywood Matte
w/ Black Wood Frame
30" x 40" x 1” Archival inks
50 grand a year [Cemetery gates]
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0.75" Birch Plywood Matte
w/ Black Wood Frame
30" x 40" x 1” Archival inks
GRASSKEEPER IN CUSTODY
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0.75" Birch Plywood Matte
w/ Black Wood Frame
30" x 40" x 1” Archival inks
LABOR OF LUSH
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0.75" Birch Plywood Matte
w/ Black Wood Frame
30" x 40" x 1” Archival inks
CREDITS
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Words and Photos c/o Lindsey Butler
Promo Videos Edited By Savannah Bearden
Additional Footage By Ben Rednour
Videos Featuring Drew Smith + Amy Schaftlein
Additional Music by SWIMWARE
