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LAURA SPLAN

American, b.1973

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"Purse #1" is a ladies evening bag constructed with remnant facial peel from the artist’s breasts. The object wavers between the delicately feminine and the grotesquely clinical in its fragile and distorted state.

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Purse
Purse #1, 2008
Cosmetic facial peel, mixed media
14”H x 6”W x 3”