TransOrphics

2016-2020, deconstructed, reconstructed furries, hand stitched.

Transorphics are a series of deconstructed furries, and a score for coming to terms with my naïve relationship to nature. This series stems from both an early love of stuffed animals and the seemingly vast, pristine, wilderness I experienced as a child camping with my family in the 1960’s and 70’s.

Through the process of deconstructing these petroleum based, mass-produced furries that pollute and kill the environments that sustain the wildlife they represent, and reconstructing them by hand, naïve relationships are transformed into not necessarily sinister but wise, uncanny oracles or specimens? (I still feel love for them) of the dystopian present, signaling an unsettling relationship to nature in the midst of system collapse that can not be ignored.