Melissa Sclafani

Crowd Control

Make it stick, don't get stuck

If I go, you go, we all go round

Falling Time, Fall in Line

It's a small world after all

Lean To / Live Trap

Untitled (install)

Skirt / Net

Untitled (circle)

Untitled (paper)

Sculpture Uniform (Miss Rogers)

Cupcake

Every girl wants a ring (pop). Part 1

Every girl wants a ring (pop). Part 2

Chew Me Up / Spit You Out

Chew Me Up / Spit Me Out

It’s a small world after all

chain link, steel pipe, wood, shag carpet,
96 x 120 x 120 inches,
2017.

It’s a small world after all

chain link, steel pipe, wood, shag carpet,
96 x 120 x 120 inches,
2017.

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It's a small world after all

chain link, steel pipe, wood, shag carpet,

96 x 120 x 120 inches,

2017.

This work comments on the lure and conditioning of childhood play-spaces. Blending interior domestic with exterior playgrounds, the bright red merry go round like sculpture becomes a lure to entice and trap inside the chain link fencing.