
performance for monster project / 2005
Monster Project Part 1
: The Story Behind the Creatures
My Monster Project was triggered by an article I read. The article conveyed the story of a woman in Philadelphia who put a monster up for auction on eBay. The mother tried to relieve her daughter’s fear by selling the monster in the form of pictures her daughter had drawn along with her belongings in a shopping bag.

If the item was sold, her daughter need not fear the monster anymore since the monster no longer lived under her bed. I came up with an idea: “If I purchase the monster pictures, I can make an exhibit of monster confinement devices based on the monster pictures.” I thought this could be a perfect, quite intriguing exhibition. As the items had sold already, I needed another way to acquire monster pictures. As a result of this, I set up the Monster Laboratory (www.beaugly.com) and called at many kindergartens and private art academies to gain monster pictures and children’s stories pertaining to monsters.
