Cabinet of Wonder:
A Queer's Dialogue Between the Grotesque,  the Curious and the Mundane

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installation view Vermont College of Fine Art, 2011
Grotesque Art and Cabinet of Curiosities trade on fascination with the unfamiliar, the unusual and the unnatural. In this installation I re-cast the grotesque to signify cultural attitudes over the centuries that have articulated the relationship between monstrosity and same-sex desire. In conversation with the Wall of Grotesques is a Cabinet of Curiosities. Collectors of the traditional cabinets endeavored to create order in a chaotic world. This cabinet enacts a revisionist history by framing and containing artifacts of queer life together with the mundane.