Internal Plinth and Mattress Painting Installation Shot copy 2.jpg
Internal Plinth and Mattress Painting Installation Shot copy 2.jpg

Maddie Jones Rodriguez, Internal Plinth

$4,000.00

Internal Plinth consists of a rusted steel ballast and 220 thrifted towels. The ballast has been repurposed from its original use of traffic guiding to operate as a viewfinder. Its strength operates as a skeleton for the towels that lay like layers of skin across it. Each towel is a portrait of the bodies that once utilized its absorptive qualities, and together they build a new body. This figure enlarges the familiar form of a toilet paper roll, which contrasts the permanence of these materials to the paper that also absorbs the leaking of our bodies.

2025.

220 towels, steel ballast.

70"x45"x40"

Internal Plinth consists of a rusted steel ballast and 220 thrifted towels. The ballast has been repurposed from its original use of traffic guiding to operate as a viewfinder. Its strength operates as a skeleton for the towels that lay like layers of skin across it. Each towel is a portrait of the bodies that once utilized its absorptive qualities, and together they build a new body. This figure enlarges the familiar form of a toilet paper roll, which contrasts the permanence of these materials to the paper that also absorbs the leaking of our bodies.

2025.

220 towels, steel ballast.

70"x45"x40"

Maddie Jones Rodriguez is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA. She will graduate with her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture in the Spring of 2025. She received her BFA in painting from Texas State University in San Marcos Texas. Her current sculptural practice explores the creation of objects that subvert function and propose new avenues of connection. Rodriguez has worked across art and community as an educator and studio assistant while building her personal practice.