Muslin, beeswax, fiber reactive dye, polyfill
16”x15,5”x12”, 2021
Krusty is part of the ’embrace failure bears’, plush soft sculptures created from past failed Batiks’ fabric.
His forehead has two of my favorite fiber reactive dye colors: dragon fruit and Kelly green. You can find The Simpson’s Krusty the clown on his right booty cheek. Other elements of his body have been ice-dyed and wax-resist dyed.
It’s so easy to take yourself too seriously as an artist, lingering endlessly in concept and pre-drafting patterns, ideas, and technique combinations. Sometimes this leads to great work; sometimes, this leads to forgetting what brings you joy in making art.
My bears are a product of full self-forgiveness, created in this hard place between discovery and ultimate failure. I hope to expand this feeling of self-forgiveness and self-kindness to my viewer by changing my failing into a soft and huggable result.