Baby Doll
Baby Doll, 2012
6' x 8' x 8'. Compost pile, fabricated steel, hay, and raw sheep's wool.
This work deals with the theme of relativity - specifically in relation to the cycle of life and death. Baby Doll is a breed of sheep. Growing up on a small farm I learned about death at a young age. The work juxtaposes a morgue box/coffin and a compost pile. The viewer is invited to open the door and roll the human-scale tray to find it full of raw sheep wool. This work is not meant to be a direct comment on meat consumption, but rather a contemplation on the cycles of life and death. On the farm, when something died it would often be buried in a compost pile. This pile was a living thing - steaming and decomposing so fast it was visibly moving. The compost would then often become soil in which we planted our garden.