BADGER
mixed media, 34" h x 12" w x 2" d
Silva’s most recent edition of “wearable art” recalls girl-scout sashes decorated with badges denoting series of achievements. The Badger series display, on individual round badges, the artist performing the seven deadly sins. The theme explored in Natural Selection is reiterated here albeit with a lightheartedness that marks an overcoming of domination through accusations. Guilt is the catalyst that enables pleasure to be transformed into sin. Badger, then, takes on aspects of an invisible armor that works by rendering accusatory badgering ineffective.
