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| It was amazing. The lights were flashing, the bells were ringing and the fuzzy bundle of joy lifted into the air then dropped like a rock. I opened the trap door and it was mine! All mine! Never again would I be told I couldn’t get what I wanted. After I had won what I coveted, I preserved my winnings like a trophy on my wall, even though I would never have simply purchased a cheap stuffed animal in the first place. I know something others don’t and that gets me stuff. By figuring out the mechanics of the claw machine I can win every time. I only want what is in the machine because I am told there is no way to obtain it, because the game is rigged, and because it is kept behind glass out of my reach. This recent body of work is about desire. We covet what we can’t have, we want what we are told is unobtainable, we desire things we do not need and we want what others have. I want to win the claw machine because after the first time I won, someone said, “There’s no way! You can’t win that!” Heidi Aishman is originally from Boston and currently lives and works in |