Pretty Ugly (2010)
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Deferred Gratification with Barr Gilmore
recycled fur coats
Barr and I collaborated together, brought together by a shared interest in the material: fur. In the presentation of Deferred Gratification, we speak to ideas of excess and luxury alongside implications of animal death (and the fur industry), the juxtaposition of live and dead animals, and the use value of recycled clothing.
Barr and I scavenged the fur from abandoned fur coats at a variety of local thrift stores. Using the CADPAT (CAnadian Disruptive PATtern)—a digitized camouflage (read artificial nature) developed and designed for the Canadian military—we designed a pattern for our blanket.
Connecting this to an idea of the Canadian military as “peacekeepers” and the changing nature of the fur industry (from hunting to farming and trapping) towards a reduction of human survival skill towards more passive, capitalist, and materialist approach.
This project also considers ideas of masculine (hunting, combat) and feminine (quilting, gathering), creating a discourse of gender (and gendered art practice).
Photos by Lino Ragno.
Deferred Gratification was also used in my Fur on Fur on Fur series.
