https://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1525&context=td
University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO
5-18-2007
MirrorMirror Alfred Podesta
From the Artists perspective, for what it’s worth.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1525&context=td
University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO
5-18-2007
MirrorMirror Alfred Podesta
From the Artists perspective, for what it’s worth.
“This piece consists of two more of these bunny figures made in the same style as those in the earlier piece but stretched out on their stomachs on the floor in a pose immediately recognizable as that of children at play. They are intently engaged in modifying a stuffed white toy bunny into a crude and improvised version of me. One is pulling a t-shirt onto the toy bunny. The other is cutting off its ears with a pair of scissors. They have made a mask for him out of a fake Artforum magazine cover. This fake magazine has my face on the cover and the caption “Alex Podesta: vivisecting the new YBA” [young bunny artist], an arrogance that nicely mimics the arrogance of the two figures and also, because the two bunnies are mutilating a toy bunny,”