My intention for this work was around reclamation of natural environment (nature) and awareness of the sacred while repurposing single use aseptic cartons. Ultimately it became about the artist as stand-in for a bobbleheaded culture.

Laura Cumming writes, “that the behavior of people in self-portraits has a strange tendency to reflect the behavior of people in life”. I am reminded of a Jack in the Box advertising campaign in which a character named Jack Box was dressed in a business suit and appeared to be a normal man but for his head which resembled an oversized ping-pong ball with blue features and a yellow hat. A world run by businessmen who are bobbleheads is indeed one reason nature is being decimated.

The mask may be reminiscent too, of the oversized diving gear pictured in films of the 1960s, allowing humans to literally dive into natural places we would not otherwise be able to access. Others have interpreted it as alien, astronaut and computer-like. The oversized mask may refer also to a cultural bias for thinking, and to the overpackaging of everything from food to nature, corporations to individual selves.