I got a request to do deep dives into specific pieces and the first one I want to take a closer look at is Hysteric from the March Glue Baby Collection. I have been experimenting with combining the heavily embellished Tiny Terra with other sculptures last year but it wasn’t quite capturing the vision. The allure of heavy embellishment is, in part, simply because I love it, and partly because it works as a metaphor. Autoimmune disease, which is what I have, is something natural that has run out of control. It’s kudzu choking a forest, or barnacles destroying a ship. Natural but out of control. And I was still looking for how I wanted to express that idea through my art. Then I saw the Great Art Explained episode on Dorothea Tanning