A still from Hanging By A Thread
by a thread” more than ever before.
one’s imagination in a chaotic and mystifying world.
Living in a world that is obsessed with technology and immortality, I have always felt the urge to produce work that reclaims the use of once feminized materials and focuses on the small and the unassuming. “Hanging By A Thread” realizes this philosophy with clothespins, thread and fabric. Through the adventures of the four-eyed “Clothespin Freak”, I present an alternate universe that is constantly changing and growing. The universe of “Hanging By A Thread” is literally out of this world; its varied symbols and subtexts are metaphors for the increasingly multicultural, multilingual, shape-shifting, and surreal world of today.
Catya Plate
Using the “four-eyed” Clothespin Freak as my surrogate and alter ego in “Hanging By A Thread”, I aim to enlighten and entertain the viewer while emphasizing the importance of
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