THE BLA LAB
interest in hair restorers. -- Austin O'Malley No modern woman with a grain of sense ever sends little notes to an unmarried man -- not until she is married, anyway. -- Arthur Binstead No one knows like a woman how to say things that are at once gentle and deep. -- Hugo No self-made man
always bothering us to do something for them.
-- Oscar Wilde
Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell
them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man
than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.
The exhibit includes several large conceptual works using non-traditional
media and found objects including old sofa-beds, used mace canisters,
discarded sanitary napkins and parts of freeways. The artist explores
our dehumanization due to high technology and unresponsive governmental
structures in a post-industrial world. She/he (the artist prefers to
remain without gender) strives to create dialogue between viewer and
creator, to aid us in our quest to experience contemporary life with its
inner-city tensions, homelessness, global warming and gender and
class-based stress. The works are arranged to lead us to the essence of
the argument: that the alienation of the person/machine boundary has
sapped the strength of our voices and must be destroyed for society to
