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Sock Monkeys in a Meat Grinder

Sock Monkeys in a Meat Grinder
Sock Monkeys in a Meat Grinder

Photo by Gene Pittman
(www.kingfisherphoto.com)

Sock Monkeys in a Meat Grinder | Media List


Statement

Created in 2007, this piece marks my transition away from clothing. Combining kitchen appliances with sock monkeys, it explores the concepts of women in the role of homemaker. Mixing feelings of horror and humor, the work also serves as a way to literally deconstruct the iconic toy.

Reviews

Hamburger, anyone? anonymous

Rebecca Yaker of Minneapolis also cleverly straddles that fine line between kitsch and culture with her award-winning "Sock Monkeys in a Meat Grinder," which poses a conjoined-twins sock monkey (one body, two heads) with one limb in an Oster grinder that's spewing out tweedy brown monkey yarn. Aesthetes will think immediately of Mike Kelley's abject sock dolls in the Walker's collection; knitters may think otherwise. Harvest of Art, Star Tribune, 8/22/08