ana atalaya magdalena
CREaTIONS aBOUT
“Scrap Wood (Sex Dolls) 1-3”
Created and exhibited during a summer at the Yale Norfolk School of Art residency program, these three sculptures, which I call “sex dolls”, are intended as a means of comparing and allegorizing the process of environmental industrialization and physical sexualization. By decorating pieces of found lumber with a combination of found materials like duct tape, rope, sandpaper, barbed wire, and a band-aid, alongside archive materials related to the site of personal and familial trauma, and then reintroducing and documenting those wood forms in dialogue with a natural landscape, I am attempting to complicate the boundaries of social transformation and natural origin.