My fascination with the cabinet house resides in its complexity of form and meaning. The cabinet house appears to be one thing, but functions as another. It is a study of the domestic environment that is housed and displayed within the environment it represents. It offers questions of gender, class, control, morality, mystery and beauty.
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Cabinet House of Sara Ploos Van Amstel, 2006
Half-scale skeletal rendition of Cabinet House created by Sara Ploos Van Amstel. Slab construction, black clay. Installation shot: Jane Harstook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, New York. 42.5” x 37” x 13”
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