Molly Larkey
Region: Pacific Coast
My work deals with dynamic uncategorizability, incorporating
aspects of drawing, writing, painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Simple lines create diverse forms: a line becomes a shape,
becomes sculpture, becomes a painting, becomes a symbol.
This refusal to participate in any single recognizable symbolic
system reflects our human condition, based in contradiction, as
the work rejects the dichotomous and insists on fluidity of form
and function.
The work also imagines a different basis for language, pointing to
our failed dualistic vocabularies and how the structures of power
that benefit from an either/or have routinely denied the neither/
both a space, a name, even a shape or form. It longs for a language
that names the subjectobject, the masterslave, the femalemale,
the richpoor, the livingdead, the blackwhite, the allnothing, the
infinitelimited. This imagined language or alphabet can’t be
implemented in the world as it exists, but it can be brought closer
to our field of vision through art.