Title: Lion's Mane, 2025
Medium: Found objects, inverted wood panel, rubber lion, foam baseball, plastic flower, ping pong ball
Conceptual Description:

In Lion's Mane, the artist stages an absurd and theatrical intervention into a domestic wall space. A rubber lion toy is awkwardly embedded head-first into an inverted wooden panel, its rear end emerging in a skirt-like poof of foam, from which a bright ping pong ball dangles below like punctuation. Above, a sunflower erupts comically from the lion’s concealed head — an ironic “mane” rendered in the language of faux flora.

The title Lion’s Mane becomes a linguistic sleight of hand — inviting viewers to first take it literally, then metaphorically, and finally, absurdly. It suggests wildness tamed, power turned decorative, and pride softened by humor. The addition of the orange ping pong ball — absurdly out of place yet insistently present — echoes the artist’s recurring interest in balance, play, and disrupted continuity.