My Fabulous Blankets
My Fabulous Blankets emerged from the heavily material part of my practice and its potential is fully realized through performance, video, and photography.
Playing with context brings into question what we already know (or think we know) and it offers alternatives. I find great freedom in exploring that space in between and cultivating spontaneity, free association, and a little non-sense in the process. For My Fabulous Blankets, I use specific visual references, pop culture moments and characters, I turn them into blankets –mundane, domestic objects – and I perform them in my living room.
The main interest for me is in the potential for what I call “performing the editorial”. I use my own body, gestures, styling, my voice, and accents to perform a queering of pop culture. I use my own 6’3, hairy Quebecois male body as a means to recreate the gestures and ultimately transform the images. I hybridized myself: one limb, one posture, gesture, or one soundbite at a time. It’s part parody and impersonation, part commentary and with the added twist that is recognizably part of my larger practice.
Angelina Jolie, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Bette Midler, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Celine Dion, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Chris Tucker, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Halle Berry, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Jessica Chastain, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Joan Cusack, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Kate Winslet, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Kathleen Turner, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Molly Shannon, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Nicole Kidman, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Priscilla Allen, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Robin Williams, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Rosie Perez, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Sally Field, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.
Sandra Bernhard, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic FineArt paper, 11” x 14” (print area 9.5” x 12.5”), unframed, 2022. Edition of fifteen.