More Jessica Jackson Hutchins

From the Whitney site:

"Jessica Jackson Hutchins explores the relationships between people and objects and how they both form and inform each other. To create this work, Hutchins glued newspaper articles about Barack Obama on the surface of a sofa repurposed from her childhood living room. Ceramic pieces, grouped haphazardly on the couch, can be viewed as surrogates for the people who once sat on its cushions. Couch For a Long Time fuses public and private moments, creating a sense that monumental world events can pervade everyday life."

I really like the idea of pairing handmade pottery with objects - esp furniture -in order to create an atmosphere of everyday life, the home, the human (mid america of a certain middle class quality of the past (70s?) - with the furniture type). There are parts of her work, though, that are too 'messy' to me. I can't think of a better word... I guess I just wish that there was a little more refinement in hand while still retaining the handmade and the older furniture... i think....