I was also shopping at the 5 and 10 cent store up on 34th Street in Manhattan. But, at the time of the shooting, the process of leading up to the shoot was that the camera is there and I would put Polaroid back on the camera and I would essentially develop the picture. So I was just interested in using something that had that kind of symbology. I dont know if you recall that movement but there was a movement where many artists, Dorthea Rockburne was one, would just create an action and rather than trying to be creative and do something interesting visually with it, they would just carry out what their sort of rules of engagement were. Though her work might appear digitally altered, all of Skoglund's effects are in-camera. This idea that the image makes itself is yet another kind of process. So this kind of coping with the chaos of reality is more important in the old work. Mainly in the sense that what reality actually is is chaos. Because a picture like this is almost fetishistic, its almost like a dream image to me. Skoglund: Right. "Everyone has outtakes. I just thought, foxes are beautiful. So what Sandy has done for us, which is amazing since the start of COVID is to look back, to review the pictures that she made, and to allow a small number of outtakes to be made as fine art prints that revisit critical pictures and pictures that were very, very important in the world and very, very important in Sandys development so thats what youre looking at behind me on the wall, and were basically the only ones that have them so there is something for collectors and theyre all on our website. I think that theres more psychological reality because the people are more important. She also become interested in advertising and high technologytrying to marry the commercial look with a noncommercial purpose, combining the technical focus found in the commercial world and bringing that into the fine art studio. I mean do the dog see this room the same way that we see it? With the butterflies that, in the installation, The fabric butterflies actually moved on the board and these kind of images that are made of an armature with jelly beans, again popular objects. In her over 60 years of career, Sandy Skoglund responds to the worries of contemporary life with a fantastical imagination which recalls the grotesque bestiary of Hieronymus Bosch and the parallel dimensions of David Lynch. Sandy Skoglund has created a unique aesthetic that mirrors the massive influx of images and stimuli apparent in contemporary culture. So its a way that you can participate if you really want to own Sandys work and its very hard to find early examples.
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