Wheres the drama in the “Finger” piece?
KF: Well, the idea of a finger often symbolizes something accusatory or blaming in relationship to others. I started thinking of fingers pointing in every direction, but taking a twisted route — a reference to how convoluted your logic can get. C: Tell us about your Budget Smart Brain, and the piece in which it appears as a major character. KF: I wanted to do a piece with this model of the brain that I bought a couple of years ago — it’s for cheap medical students, I guess. I was interested in doing another body part thing. I guess I use a lot of cliched images — the clouds (to symbolize the heavens), flowers, seagulls, played-out signs — and the brain is one of those, as well as a funny statement for meaning and thought in general. I didn’t know what to do with the model brain, so I made an animation of it using a grid for a background. (I made the grid using a photo of the tile on my bathroom floor.) I’m interested in grids — they’re about control and having things be understandabl
