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![Ten dead American dog ticks, each stuck onto the head of a pin, are pinned in a row to the top of a felted cinder block.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_05.jpeg?itok=ky_nD7bZ)
Chloe Kaylor
Means and Meaning
The marrow of my conceptual interest derives from my experiences navigating the structures of late capitalism and the subsequent realities of everyday life. With these foundational attributes, my current work focuses on remixing familiar relationships between form, scale, and material to create suppositional narratives about the role of class identity within the American experience. Through crafted visual metaphors, I seek to examine the complex sociological implications of status, white supremacy, nationalism, and patriotism. These complexities are then distilled into digestible sculptural entities that aim to challenge established perspectives and societal norms. As a product of the American South, I feel a certain urgency to investigate how cultural perspectives develop and shape the ways in which people relate to one another.
Means and Meaning is a rumination on class consciousness and its effectiveness as a lens through which every facet of contemporary life can be filtered for clarity.lor.
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![The rubber of a conveyor belt is embroidered with a poem that reads: "Our days shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread but give us roses."](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_01_0_0.jpeg?itok=IfBj2E94)
Muscle Memory
Conveyer, thread, excerpt of Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim.
4L x 1W x 2.5H
2022
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![A pine mailbox post lays on the floor, with a felted cinder block balanced on on end and a felted chain and dog collar suspended from the other end.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_03_0.jpeg?itok=ncgSrLcP)
Suckers
Pine mailbox post, wool, iron, American Dog Ticks
Dimensions variable
2022
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![A felted cinder block balances on the tip of a pine mailbox post that is laying on the floor](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_04_0.jpeg?itok=t9P2zO_t)
Suckers (detail)
Pine mailbox post, wool, iron, American Dog Ticks
Dimensions variable
2022
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![Ten dead American dog ticks, each stuck onto the head of a pin, are pinned in a row to the top of a felted cinder block.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_05_0.jpeg?itok=iOZnfQW4)
Suckers (detail)
Pine mailbox post, wool, iron, American Dog Ticks
Dimensions variable
2022
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![Loose gravel forms a shape on the floor, with felted aluminum cans placed on top.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_06_0_0.jpeg?itok=NE-85RV_)
A Walk in the Park II
Gravel, felt, aluminum.
6ft x 1ft
2022
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![A felted aluminum can sits atop a bed of loose gravel.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_07_0.jpeg?itok=0Ubyok6e)
A Walk in the Park II
Gravel, felt, aluminum.
6ft x 1ft
2022
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![A white person sits at a picnic table behind two miniature bronze trailer homes. The trailers are vessels containing ice cream sundaes. The person inserts a large spoonful of vanilla ice cream in their mouth](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_08_0.jpeg?itok=CBh7xB6U)
Appetite (performance video still)
Gravel, cinder blocks, table cloths, bronze, ice cream sundae, performance video.
Dimensions variable
2022
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![A white person's hand holds a miniature American eagle made of butter.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_09_0.jpeg?itok=EvvavzpG)
Eagle Flag Topper (pre-melt)
Butter
Dimensions variable
2022
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![A miniature American eagle - made of butter - droops as it melts atop a steel bar.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/Sculpt_ChloeKaylor_10_0.jpeg?itok=U4Sh8_Vr)
Eagle Flag Topper (post-melt)
Butter
Dimensions variable
2022