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In her first New York City solo exhibit, Minnesota sculptor Tiffany Besonen has constructed the mixed medium installation AMBIOTIC (amniotic, ambient, biological, and symbiotic), predominantly of the visceral and content rich:
sewing pattern paper, beeswax, and vintage wooden ironing boards. The installation, inspired by the whole-body experience of mothering, contains a large two-panel painted collage of the poem I Am Smoke When I Can Be by poet LouAnn Shepard Muhm and a three-part sculptural construction connecting three altered wooden ironing boards with layered paper pear forms that are strung
through and suspended above the ironing board forms that curve through the L-shaped gallery. Tiffany Besonen constructs installation narratives investigating motherhood, identity, Finnish heritage, aging, and family dynamics.

http://amppower.blogspot.com/2007/01/tactile-fetish.html

Sculptor

Curved Pine Detail
Project 39: Curved Pine Site
39" = 99cm, (Project 39: Details)
After the Snow, (Project 39: Details)
AMBIOTIC Detail
Ambiotic Installation
AMBIOTIC Detail
AMBIOTIC, nest under ironing board detail
i am water
Nest 2 Detail
Nest 2
Koti Installation
Koti (home) Collage
Fruit and Labor (Detail)
Fruit and Labor (Full View)
Mother Pear Installation in motion (video clip)
Mother Pear 2
Mother Pear 1
I, Mother Pear
Exposing Wrapped Pears