BIDDY - foam; faux fur; hot sculpted and enameled glass. 2019 

The Irish hare has often been entangled with fairylore, with their elusivity and mysteriousness. In the late 19th and early 20th century they were often related to suspicious women, women that were thought to have direct contact with the fairies or who themselves were fairies. It was a common belief among farmers that a hare would sneak into their barns at night and feed directly from their cattle's udders (of course, this wasn't true, however, the abundance of hare in Ireland meant they were eating a lot of grass, leaving very little for the cows who therefore weren't producing milk). This belief and others like it led to a lot of stories with a similar plot: a farmer pursues a hare and shoots it. When the farmer looks for the wounded hare he finds it has transformed into an old woman, who’s bleeding out from a gun shot wound.

Biddy is a common nickname for Bridget in Ireland. Interestingly enough, Bridget was the main Goddess of pagan Ireland, whose celebration day was then appropriated by Catholicism (St. Bridget's day). One of the most famous fairy doctors in Ireland was called Biddy Early, quite a fascinating woman whom was said to have healing powers derived from the Otherworld. A more ominous fairy account of a “Biddy” is that of Bridget Cleary, who was burned alive in her home in 1895 by her husband and other members of her family, they were convinced she was a changeling (an evil fairy that had taken her place).