The Girl Has Teeth and the Teeth Are Tired
Amaryllis R. Flowers, 2022
27 in h x 14 in w x 16 in d
Ceramic, video, synthetic human hair, bones gifted from a friend, vertebrae, and clay

A ceramic figure projects Infinity Commute protruding from her spine in the shape of a doorway/grave. The Girl Has Teeth and the Teeth are Tired is a power figure meant to safeguard the exhausted. Her sky blue body is doubled over, held up by giant arms that she wears like transformer gloves, steadying her with fists on the ground. The words “forever ago” are carved across her chest in OG lettering, and mirroring those letters on her back are the words “you wish”. Her whole body is carved with symbols, words, and drawings marking cycles of transition between states of embodiment and disembodiment: carnal knowlege, cosmic horses, swiftness, bones, flames, flowers, clouds, ghosts, portals, graves, rainbows, rain, eyes, dismembered hands, hearts, animals, constellations, etc. She wears a skull helmet with crooked yellow, pink, and purple teeth. The teeth, skull, transformer arms, and giant feet of this figure are all patterned in dark red brown and bone yellow clays made through a process called Nerikomi.