Artist's Psychobabble - take with a grain of salt. Form your own impressions.

(Holy Cow) is a photo of a (now obviously long-dead) cow from my grandfather's dairy farm that I used to visit as a child. It is printed as a negative image with "Liquid Light" photographic emulsion on a found piece of broken and sawed board. Notice how the artifical photographic substance blends into the semi-natural material of the semi-finished wood.

(Holy Mackerel) A found refrigerator box was used to layer and make the three sections of this large piece. Most of the scales on the torso are different-sized and flopped images of the same Holstein cow as in the "Holy Cow" piece, but note also the photos of the cow skull and the one color photo of a Guernsey with a halo. Other photographic additions include shots from a badly-tuned analog color TV, an alligator's eye, a butter knife for a snout, cat fur under the eye, images from an aquarium, and a self-portrait on the backbone behind the head. Humor abounds. It may not be a mackerel (you may recognize it as a marlin), but is it holy?

All images copyright 2008 Kendra Harness/Lost Angeles Rubber Works