Debra Brotz: Creatures

This series of work combines vintage ceramic animal and human figurines, creating fabricated artifacts that seem to have come from a parallel timeline. Decorative objects that were once pervasive in middle-class homes are reimagined to be subtly uncanny. These alterations generate a confused nostalgia for a time that never existed, and surprise, or perhaps even horror, that the version of history I present is not the beautiful and perfect vision of dominant culture one might hold in their mind's eye.