1971-Headbox
'My Furry Friends', a head box, 3-d assemblage in Plexiglass
with resin fiberglass life cast, stuffed animals and leather
collar. |
'Bird
Woman' Headbox. Plexiglass box, life-cast and feathers. |
Group
of 'Headboxes'.
- "Penny's
own head transformed with brilliant feathers… Growing
animals like a strange, furry Medusa… Black masked,
her own eyeless executioner". Observer Supplement,
1971.
- "They're
for different experiences, to hold an idea and make
it real," Penny in Observer Magazine interview,
1971.
- "Rabbits
nuzzle her cheeks, a flattened squirrel crouches
on top of her forehead, stray tails and paws hang
down like hair. It is not, she insists, out of narcissism
that she uses her own likeness, but simply convenience.
"I'm available and I'm alright. I can manipulate
it (my own image) quite ruthlessly, so it becomes
just anonymous!"' Marcelle Bernstien,Observer Color
Supplement 1971.
- "The
element of allegory and analogy should penetrate
all but the most insensitive imaginations." Peter
Fuller - Connoisseur Magazine.
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