Jessica Stoller's Spoil

from Jessica Stoller's Spoil show. Still Life, 2013. porcelain, china paint, and luster.

Jessica Stoller's work appears at first glance to be a tea party table oozing with feminine details such as flowers, frills, and pearls, but the sinister details add a tinge of the abject to these otherwise proper pieces. (the snails crawling on apples and claw-like hand atop the cake)

I was initially drawn to the combination of food and female body parts. Although this isn't the medium I'll be working in, I still take inspiration from the combination of feminine and grotesque and familiar concepts and ideas pushed in a different direction. I'm specifically interested in the forms they take and the site specificity of the buffet table.