Overview:
These figurative sculptures explore the notion of dependency and our biological reliance on medicine or chemical substances. All of the subjects in these works depend on a drug to stay alive, whether due to illness or an ongoing medical condition. Quinn has mixed one dose of that particular drug with polymer wax to create these sculptures which are installed so that they appear to be levitating or barely touching the floor. On any given day the subject and the sculpture have the same amount of drug in them. For Silvia Petretti, who is HIV positive, the casting wax has been mixed with her required anti-viral drug. Transplant survivor Carl Whittaker's wax mould contains the drug cocktail that keeps his body from rejecting its own organs. In the works Innoscience and Free, Quinn depicts his first son during and after his severe allergy to cow’s milk as a young infant.
