A [PARTIAL] unbounded categorical list:
In-between bodies: My work explores illustrations and embodiments of the liminal states between several countervailing pairs: alive and dead, person and thing, human and animal, individual and unrecognized mass, the pronouns “he/she/they” and “it.”
Skin: I’m drawn to artistic media that mimic epidermal layering, decay, and transparency. My interest in skin is as a permeable membrane rather than an impenetrable shell. I’m experimenting with this bodily boundary in ways that show it as in-flux with the body’s interior as well as the surrounding atmosphere.
Zombies: Zombies are often identified by various physical traits, which can vary from a walking corpse to a cartoonishly exaggerated form of decomposing flesh. In most depictions, the skin of the zombie body is in an unstable state of peeling and decay, often revealing the body’s interior. Zombie is also a pop-cultural category that negates those who are relegated into it. My work examines the physical traits that get attributed to zombies and how they relate to this stigmatization and a sense of the uncanny. I am also following the ways the word zombie has spread into a multitude of places in Western culture, and how it can be re-defined to talk about contemporary issues.
George Pfau interview, 2010 Artist Resident from The Wassaic Project on Vimeo.
