I really love this work. I am partcularly interested in how she started off talking about consumerism etc and has now moved onto male stereotyped work. e.g. cars and rockets etc. I find myself reading alot of male dominated magazines. i find them alot more intellectually sitmulating and I would be interested in more masculine materail matter. What makes her work "art?" and not just shopping. setting these situations up. the shoe boxes make the plynths for the shoes. Taking found objects ad remaking them into fine art objects. remaking dog toys, and car batteries and machines etc. really making us question by using the title to ask what are these things we are buying? It would be impossible for me to make this work as I would enver have the money to buy these shoes. im not getting as much out of this as i did from demand....
The golden tyre is my favourite. and spraying the shopping thing gold. I am beomcing obsessed with objects being gold. being given some sort of authority. or being sprayed gold alsmot giving them a higher status. Very interested in that. the surface.....of gold........Making something worth more than its actually worth or at least symbolising that you want it to be worth more through changing its surface colour.
ive noticed the shopping trollies would be spinning round like in a shop. I think this is also what russeell is interested in to. which is why he got the microwave plate. this spinning notion to make it look more desirable. Was at Tysons and they have a spinning thing to, nick pointed out that maybe it was going to fast for a box of matches and its that thing of there being a specific speed for each object to make it look desirable.
and what is this spinning thing about? whats the psycology behind it? why do we like it to spin?
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