DAIRY QUEENS

I HAVE UDDERLY LOST IT

Crochet Drag Cow 40" x 17"

Crochet Cow Skeleton 40" x 17"

ARTIST STATEMENT

This project embodies the late-night, too-tired-to-sleep, giggling-for-no-reason, screaming-in-gibberish state of mind that I have been in since quarantine began. I went into this project wanting to do something very pretentious, in all black, that let me show off my technical skill but that got boring really quickly. Being slightly exhausted all of the time is a hallmark of isolation for me. So often I find myself wearing two different colored fuzzy socks, sliding across the kitchen floor screaming something irrelevant. These two cows let me commit to the chaos and the absurdity. The ridiculousness of a cow in drag makeup is grounded in a comforting matriarchal craft. The skeleton cow is disturbing, a little scary but it is juxtaposed with fuzzy and cozy yarn.

Crochet is something I started in April in hopes it would bring me a little comfort. I watched a plethora of middle-aged white women talk about magic circles, double and triple crochets and I started figuring it out. I gave up on the tutorials soon after. I know two official stitches but this project was not about technical skill. This project is about the eye I have developed. It's about the way I have learned to see shapes instead of hands, grass, or shadows. These cows have let me commit to chaos in isolation.


 


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