Video installation, 3 min loop, 2009 (Exhibited Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia)

Plat du jour is about the accruements of glamour and decoration, and a humorously dry celebration of this.  For me, the over-the-top and synthetic nature of all the elements in this piece is beautiful, but considered tacky within society’s notions of what is beautiful and glamorous.  Like Andy Warhol’s celebration of the aesthetic of surface, this piece explores a scene where all beauty is ‘man-made’.

The climax at the end of this short piece, (or the ‘money shot’ – call it what you will) in all its sweet, dripping, stickiness, is perfection on a plate.  It’s the “I love you”, the chase sequence, or the falling in a hail of bullets at the end of the movies we love.

This is an absurdist piece that celebrates the tacky glamour of the ‘man-made’.  It is pop, trash and home-made.  It is about dressing up and ‘playing’ at beauty.