“Swimming Cities, From Spy’s
Perspective,” Juxtapoz Art & Culture
Magazine, December 21, 2009.
Dr. HAL Robins (Church of the SubGenius) says: Spy
Emerson is an accomplished practicioner of the graphic and
plastic arts. For years her metier has been what can be
best described by her slogan, "Making Something from
Nothing." Though in a sense this could be said of all art,
Spy's specialty is synthesis. As she achieves effects
essentially more profound than simple satire and social
criticism, the "nothing" she employs as raw material is
really our unnoticed trash, the cast-off leavings of a
civilization undergoing enforced technological mutation.
The resulting work serves the lyric and decorative
functions of art as it adds to the didactic voice of the
art of our times. It insists, as Dr. Nicole Archer has
written, "...that we recognize the ethics implied in our
relationships with such detritus... [and] see the beauty
inherent in these items...." A contributor to JUXTAPOZ magazine
and a boldly inventive Performance Artist, Spy's
numerous and playful works include stage shows of
dance and drama, collage and assemblage of found
materials, photography, painting, film and video.