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Sophie Hood
Sophie Hood, of Lyndonville,
VT, received her B.A. in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, with
a minor in Studio Art, from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
Hood has exhibited her work at Dartmouth College and, in 2009,
was part of "On the Planet," an exhibition of work by
four Vermont artists in Nagoya, Japan. Hood-also a musician, metalworker
and costume designer - currently works as a Special Instructor
in the Studio Art Department at Dartmouth College and as a Visiting
Artist in Dartmouth's Claflin Jewelry Workshop. As a musician,
she plays electric violin and sings in the rock band Occam's Razor.
Grappling with the realities
of overflowing landfills and humanity's impact on other life forms,
Hood's Bag Creatures raise questions about what would happen if
everything we created ( including waste, such as plastic bags
) were living creatures that needed a home: "What if there
was a race of plastic bag creatures? What would they do and what
would we do in turn? How would it change our environment and our
percepyion of it? Would we think more carefully about what we
bring into this world? In an attempt to answer these questions,
Hood has created several life-sized creatures from repurposed
plastic bags. As wearable sculptures, Hood's creatures alter the
reality of both the viewer and the person inside the costume.
Hood observes: "I become the garbage creature and I can feel
what it might feel... I want to find where I belong."
