found object

High, low, christian, heathen, serious, playful, kitsch, sublime: critical taxonomies carry no currency here. Classifications are ersatz niceties that amputate, and Allen prefers the smoky, spooky plenitude of the nightmare, in all its dreadful glory, to the nightmare of imperious, limping half-truth. In her work, t-shirt design, grease paint motion pictures, and images sprung of the Book of Psalms are equivalent, not because she has trained herself in clever juxtapositions, but because she knows, as any wise six year old would, that art, like life, is always matter of catching as catch can, making do, derring-do: everything is unfair game.