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Fresh Eyes
Squish
Mary
Hat Lady
Baby Over Lord
Peacekeeper
Bedroom Collections (Mother)
Scavengers
Reclining Venus
Hug Machine











Vella’s current work explores the use of cute characters by corporate or government entities as a violent front, preying on evolutionary impulses of care and pity elicited by big-eyes, non-human or infantilized creatures. 

The work is a reaction to a phenomenon she began exploring during a semester abroad in Tokyo, Japan – attempting to reconcile the use of ‘cute’ images in an advertising context; addressing cute as a dystopian intermediary between nature and capital.

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