When you stop experimenting -- it's over. It's the end of life. Which may be an experiment too, but I haven't gotten there yet.

Every part about us is edited, clothes, speech, feelings, etc, when unedited it is the unedited part of us that keeps us human.

 

The Hopeless Romantic - Immortalizing the UnderDog, The immortalized underdogs, part of a series of incredible finds that started when a stunning dragonfly, perfectly formed and freshly dead, stopped me in my tracks as I was hurrying up Lexington Avenue to a lunch date. I couldn’t help but stoop down, pick him up and carry him proudly to my meeting

Look closely at the things that you usually reject. Find beauty and sensuality in their shine, the gloss of the flesh that still clings to the pit, the hard edged potential of that solitary seed. Chew on an idea and taste it fully before you release it to the world. Resist the tendency to ruminate over it for so long that you lose all perspective. If you don’t say what you mean the thoughts will sit heavily and garble your words, like pits in your mouth. Take a risk and spit out. It is only upon release from the flesh and the insulation of your mouth that the seed will be released to realize its potential..

The Doc - Love is Blind, Love is blind in the passion of Art. A venture that is rewarding for being there in the present, anything else is just icing on the cake.

Part I, Straight Up Fat placing a slab of human Fat under the microscope. Knowing that only the wealthy could afford to extract their fat, I wondered; How much would they pay to buy it back?

Part II, Specially Designed Fat, the absurdity of the 30 million dollar bikini, the 2 million dollar wedding cake, the tire rims, the 1.8 million dollar dog collar, and of course the Hermes bag. I declare my work to be worth millions in an unlimited edition, buy now and you too can become the new caretaker of my million dollar works.

Part III, After Death Options, dead flowers blown up to look beautiful as we put the art market back on track. Exhibited in the Australian Ballarat Biennale.

FAT WORDS and PRESS

Playing god in seven days, from chance meetings in the Zurich airport to finding moments of serendipity and bliss, to capturing moments of tension and decay, nudging the viewers towards playing God in their own lives. Through close observation and her experience of being the watcher and not just the watched, Karalla offers options for quiet defiance in a surveillance society. She may be watching the lovers in Atlantis, but they continue to kiss despite her eyes on them. She may be watching the residents of I Sassi de Matera, but they boldly defy her gaze by continuing on with their own lives. The woman in Man/Woman breaks out of the controlling movement of her partner as Karalla looks on and records.
 
Here is where playing God ends. The artist and the viewer are not omniscient, or omnipotent, but little by little they can seize moments back from the cops and the robbers in their lives, shaking off the watchful boundaries that society has imposed on them, and begin to live dangerously until the end.

Purgingthe manipulation that inhabits our daily life, so ingrained in us, it is viewed as the norm. I introduce you to 'Intelligent Design.'

Fruits, fresh and rotting fruit. / Meats, the living and the dead. / Babies, the child as the object of design

Romancing the Blur - Ophilia - Alice / Alice - Ophila, the baggage of childhood, life's little dictation of woman-hood.

Romance in Seconds –Romance can only be had in the void of structure. Homes reflecting in the Venice canal, melt into Miros / Impressionist imagery, where the stories of all romances begin.

Move Don't Move - 120 seconds the model is taking their own picture, in order to remove the photographer’s eye. The model is positioned into five sittings, solo, with lover, friend, worker and a family member. In each of these positions the models energy changes as a different energy enters the space.

Flash - to mutilate oneself in the flash of light – paying homage to Rimbaud’s statement - "But the soul must be made monstrous: after the fashion of the comprachicos, yes! Imagine a man planting and cultivating warts on his face, while entering the stage of society."

The Baby Grand Piano - encourages both participant and viewer to re-examine their relationship to this powerful subject. Women played an unprecedented role in banding together and bringing their men to Karalla, while the men themselves – as the faceless donors - were freed of identity and class.