DESIRE FOR THE OTHER
2004
This project was sculpted by Brian Goggin with Al
Honig and Tom Kennedy. It is part of the San Jose
Museum of Art permanent collection.
It's a pandemoniacal moment, bounding off the floor,
an amiable enough, elongated, many legged, yet
crapulous couch wraps its craning ends bulbous pillows
around an under stuffed rather intellectual reading
chair. Not for osculation, but for silencing
consumption. An armor of orange upholstery stretches
tight, seams strained, over previously pillow-gummed
furniture, constrained inside the padded peptic tract
but not yet dissolved, a table, a television, a lamp,
and a telephone, thrust their extremities out,
unlikely tent poles making fabric braille, caught in
the couches duodenum. Black belly arching, red legs
clambering, it peers your way.
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