I often generate a re-framing of the familiar in my work. I find humor in the image of a teddy bear, lounging in an overstuffed chair sipping tea in slippers, as a key chain. Does this key chain beget a longing, in the time away from home, for that very moment of leisure and peace? As it comes to bear reimagines a wayward capitalist understanding of efficiency and production. The image of a lounging teddy bear leisurely emerging out of a sheet of metal, falsely yet defiantly showing how key chains are made—they just exist.
as it comes to bear (2015)