'De-Composition' - Ivy Branch and Salvaged Chandelier Crystals

Any normal person is scared when they see a knife. Even if they aren’t directly threatened by it, they know to be mindful of its presence. Sometimes when you’re alone with a knife you might think “well I have the power over this knife because I can just put it in the drawer”. Which is true. But when you hold the knife, it is you who changes, your hand conforms to it. And when you put it in the drawer, who is to say that it isn’t the one that instructs the flipper to flip up into the top part of the drawer, so that you can’t open it. And then you spend the next 15-20 minutes wrestling with a section of your kitchen. 

I respect hoarders because they seem to have a true sense of the spiritual energy of objects. I'd like to meet a knife hoarder and find out why they do it. I'd also of course be terrified to meet this person and go to their house, because they are most likely "knife happy" and that can't be good. 

I was listening to Madonna's Immaculate collection when I made this. She was really at her finest then. I was so fortunate as a kid that I had the CD and I would play it over and over and just make up my own dance moves and be really theatrical about it. On her Truth or Dare tour, when the cops tried to put the kibosh on parts of her act, she refused to compromise and described her work as "catharsis".  George Michael's song "Father" is also a favourite of mine. As is Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire", where he asks "if you're daddy is home".