A Thursday lift from Al Freeman. The Canadian artist reimagines everyday objects as large-scale soft sculptures, turning her sewing skills to everything from blenders and basketball hoops to pen knives and penises. “[She] is the doyenne of deadpan,” writes Jessica Klingelfuss in her profile on the artist for Elephant. “Her stuffed replicas of male-coded commodities echo the absurdity of our gendered hierarchy.” Freeman, we discover, is currently busy making a series of ex-boyfriend pillows. “I was worried that the human form wouldn’t translate so I started with something familiar and made a bunch of dicks,” she tells Klingelfuss. “Then I started experimenting with the rest of the body…” Read the full feature here.
