Terracotta, bronze paint, bone

15” x 14” x 9”

2018

Who is attacking? Are we shooing away the danger about to spring up into action or are we being shooed, and that’s us stumbled on the ground, helpless, frightened? Fear is such a primal emotion it binds us to our animal origins, cutting through millennia of evolution and everything that makes us human and civilized. The bone element represents that—when we are helpless (no arms), frightened, fallen, something primal, animalistic wakes up to carry us through a tough time, like the crutch of a survival instinct.

Today Shoo! represents the world in a global pandemic—filled with fear, attempts to shoo the invisible enemy away, feelings of helplessness combined with innate believe that somehow, eventually, we will get through this.