Máquinas de Lolita Panza
in-situ installation
Richmond, Virginia, 2022
Ceramics, unfired clay, glass, beeswax, natural rubber hose, flour, sugar, vinegar, milk, cheese, mold, wood, beans, baskets, avocado-dyed cotton rope, cotton thread, lactic acid, probiotics, walnut dyed wood, hair from a lover, plastic, casting wax, etc.
This installation is a machine system and grid of stomachs consuming themselves and each other while being consumed by their environment. The stomachs are on beds of sugar, flour, vinegar, and milk, which has had vinegar added to curdle it into cheese and which has begun to mold. It is inspired by a story written by Leonora Carrington in The Milk of Dreams.