STEPHANIE GARON
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PicturePelt: steel, Pine needles (24"x18"x10")
 
 My own interpretation of Meret Oppenheim’s definitive work, Object, is Pelt. A two-  piece steel armature curves like a road or body part which then gets covered with a  blanket  of pine needles. It’s soft, rounded, and highly tactile. It invites you in to touch  or smell, a 4D experience, to imagine with it. I used materials that were at my feet. The  layers rely on the steel for form and balance. The skewed, sloppy direction of the  needles replicate real placement on the forest floor, or hair on skin. This epidermis  changes color with time, sheds, and thickens at parts. It personifies nature as woman  and captures the dichotomy of permanence and impermanence. 

"Garon’s work is an innovative and relatively new expansion of context and content which could have stood on its own as art, but Garon has taken on a far deeper task with art that can be amplified by its sources, market, and cultural impact."
-Lucy Lippard
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