Stills from The Fox and the Bellows, 2006, video, running time: 15 minutes, 3 seconds.
As a boy, I was afraid of a stuffed fox that my grandfather kept in his basement. My mother would send me downstairs to get milk from the refrigerator. With a gallon of milk in my hand, I would dash up the stairs so that the fox couldn’t attack me. I created a bronze fox to represent this type of irrational fear. When I finished sculpting the fox I placed it on a pedestal; I stood back to look at what I had done, and I realized that the medium I had used and the manner which I had situated the sculpture seemed to enshrine and thereby perpetuate my fears. I decided that I needed to take action by returning the fox to the fires that created it.
Relic from The Fox and the Bellows. 7′ x 2.5′ x 10′, steel, fabric, and rubber.
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