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The Trottle Sink is an absurd metaphor for escape. Inga Dorosz, who grew up in communist Poland and suburban Los Angeles, peeled potatoes everyday. While doing so under the watchful eye of her mother, she “fantasized incessantly about escaping to faraway places.” Amanda Fin grew up in New Jersey where she watched Sinbad movies and kept a packed bag of clothes and cookies under her bed. Taking its cue from literature, lunar explorations and the human need for adventure, The Trottle Sink illustrates the universal desire to break out and the thrill of the getaway. With a potato as its protagonist, the video also explores the relationship of opposites: mundane and extraordinary, familiar and foreign, comedic and serious, the vast and the intimate.
Images:Inga Dorosz and Amanda Fin, stills from The Trottle Sink, 2001, video
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