This show was part-homage to Cake, my beloved pet Pomeranian and performance partner of thirteen years. The bittersweet twilight of a career at its natural and inevitable end often provokes nostalgia.  The artist’s work is revived, while the artist becomes reduced to a faint trace of herself, merely serving to fulfill the desire and memory of the spectator.

Rather than attempt to capture and domesticate the legacy of Cake, Pomerania examined the dynamics of control and coercion that have constituted my vital working relationship with Cake for over a decade.  The images and objects in the exhibition depict a relationship predicated in part on physical domination and narrated through the dramas of attachment and dependence. The stable polarities of owner and pet, captor and captive, aggressor and innocent shift under scrutiny; the center does not hold. The work thus becomes an open exploration of complex forces binding the artist to a collaborator/pet, as well as consequences of being so bound.