karla Black talks about how important to her work the natural everyday materiality is she discusses how some people misinterpret her, she says ''they see my work as being made by a feminist and don't see the work for what it is.'' There is no hidden reading or agenda the work is ephemeral and through her touch in the making it has a hematic resonance. To karla working with finishing plaster, chalk dust, eye shadow, toothpaste, bath bombs, plastic is all about transferring the materiality of these ingredients into a living embodiment she discusses this as being the real creativity of her work and if museums purchase the work (as much of the work it will disintegrate much at the end of the show) then she has succeeded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHe7cb_DKo&feature=emb_rel_end