Created with acrylic paint, glitter, and rhinestones, sealed in epoxy resin on 11"x14" stretched canvas, mounted on a beaded wire. A very sparkly acrylic painting depicts a skull with a missing front tooth and a pink bow in a swarm of venus flytraps. Within the plants, small tokens of childhood glitter: a Barbie head, familiar candy, half of a BFF necklace, a Hello Kitty keychain, pink nail polish, and plastic gems. Flesh flies mingle with the items -- one fly in particular is cleaning the inside of the skull's eye socket.
"Babyteeth Lost" represents how consumable I felt as a young girl; terrified to be devoured while growing my own teeth. At the same time, consumption defined much of my girlhood, finding identity in pink plastic marketing. With this work, I was pondering on that relationship: how the plastic remains while the girl is gone.
