"... crochet techniques explore feminine craft and heritage, dissect gender codes, and show primal creative expression..."

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- Gwen Blakley Kinsler

The sculptures in this section are part of “Punching Cattle on a Jackrabbit”, a body of works that looks at how America, and to some extent the Western world, builds and catechizes culture through the creation of multiple vagaries: mixtures of cultural artifacts, traditions, stereotypes and bizarre humor.

 

It is a capricious appraisement of our contemporary culture of war, violence, capitalism and popular kitsch.

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The Golden Doe is a gilded hunting decoy for which a Mexican Wrestler outfit has been crocheted. It pairs religious reference with traditional craft and bright colors to become a playful and surreal object stripped of its purpose but given some multi-cultural apple pie charm.

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The toy soldiers are “Sewing the Seeds of Democracy”, flying down ill-equipped but well intentioned with their lace doily parachutes.