I’m very happy to announce that my piece CHAMBER XIX Bring the motherfucking ruckus was chosen as one of 25 finalists in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award 2022.
We have been BLOWN AWAY by the high standard of entries that we have received for the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize! Thank you so much to everyone who has entered. As a small, independent publisher, it means a lot to us that the global artists community respects and values the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.
DANIJELA KRHA PURSSEY, CO-FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, BEAUTIFUL BIZARRE MAGAZINE
This piece was created in 2021 for my solo show Enter the 36 Chambers as one of 36 “emotional reliquaries”.
Each of the 36 pieces in this show was meant to be a “level” to be conquered, emotionally, and being in the middle of the bunch there are a handful of hard feelings to beat. The specific thoughts for this piece related to the iron maiden (the object, not the band.) As a kid I was always obsessed with medieval torture devices...I couldn't wrap my head around how people could do something like that to one another. The same goes for how people treat one another to this day, verbally, emotionally.
To see the full list of 25 finalists, please visit Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award 2022: Finalists Announced