“Goblina and the Magic Ribbon: Tea Offering,” explores the same story in a different moment. The work is a miniature installation comprised of a clay-covered plinth, gardening hoe, and tea set. The set-up removes the work from the gallery setting and places it within a unique world. Flanked by a gardening hoe, this ornamental work juxtaposes our notions of the austere task of farming, with a ritual, decorative object. As the viewer investigates the teapot, they see representations of transbodies on this iconic form where they are usually missing. By placing transbodies on a traditional form, I interrogate a history where trans people are missing, prompting the viewer to ask about the nature of this make-believe transnormative world, the significance of the object, its decoration, and the possibility that neither transness nor labour need to carry the connotations they do in our world.
Goblina and the Magic Ribbon: Tea Offering
Glazed stoneware, gardening hoe, clay, plinth
4 x 2.7 x 2.5′
2024
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