Typo-Matic Sweetheart (machine), 2002 steel, copper, brass, found materials 28 x 48 x 20" Photo: Shingo Furukawa

These are pleasure machines. I hope to capture people's hers attention for a very short time and entertain them through the nonsense of somewhat illogical, absurd, and silly actions and functions. Silliness can sometimes use a good justification, however, and in my case it's because I'm scared, I'm pissed off and I'm such a coward. This is why I have no intention to make machines that are the echoes of yesterday or the ideal of projected tomorrow. I mean them to become machines of today that belong right here, right now, where I am. They are my reaction. They are my commentary against the methods of 'our madness" that I'm so frightened by.

Untitled (3 Roses) (machine), 2003 steel, brass, copper, sterling silver, found materials 12 x 16 x 10" Photo: Kevin J. Fachetti