Angelilli in Pacentro, Italy, 2023

If I think of history then I think of people, and what they made while alive. I’m influenced by intimately handmade things from readily available materials. For this reason I embrace the abundance of car seat headrests as my material. I scavenge car seat headrests from scrap yards and eBay. They are my canvas. A surface to paint. I persevere to make work that takes time, and as I age I try to consider the quality of the pieces I produce over consistency and quantity. I want to continuously strive for something beautiful and flawed over perfection and acceptance. Overall, I choose to paint car seat headrests for intimate reasons. They’re remnants of humanity that yearn for a more examined light of our history.