"With a lot of the earlier works, it's very metaphoric in that the nude body can stand for so many different things. It could be the ideal aesthetics of what woman should be, of what society should be. It can stand for that, and I suppose you can also read in a layer of politics, of what the ideal society or the ideal political organization should be. So there are metaphoric implications to that, whereas what I think is happening now in a lot of the works, like the Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds [Building Minnesota, and] with Jana Sterbak, is this blatant, you know ... It [current work] addresses those issues very blatantly and physically to a point where it's thrown at your face, and you can't ... It's not something you kind of lean toward or figure out, but it's something you get right on the spot."
Jana Sterbak VANITAS: FLESH DRESS FOR
AN ALBINO ANORECTIC
Clara Kim