Sandy Skoglund

'8Toaster' from series 'Reflections In A Mobile Home', (1977)

'Radioactive Cats' (1980)

'Revenge of the Goldfish' (1981)

"We look at a dog and the dog looks back at us. During that moment we know that we are not the only consciousness at work in the universe. The world of earth is an inhabited place, full of many living entities that do not and cannot see reality in the same way that we do. This form of multi-consciousness has always been disturbing to me, as it introduces a world of chaos that we actually cannot see ourselves. Reality itself, then, is chaos that has been made presentable by the limitations of human perception. So, in my work, I am trying to show reality as it actually is, as a rupture through the fabric of our human consciousness."

- Sandy Skoglund in an interview with Luca Parreno at the Betta Frigieri Arte Contemporanea, Modena, Italy , 02/08/08.