‘Jam Spoon’
Maloy invited a stunt double with same ‘stats’ as himself - male, 6ft tall, 70kg, brown hair - to his studio where he covered his replica’s body in strawberry jam, applied with a wooden spoon. This act could be seen as a fetishist or a systematic approach to the application of the jam and as though he was metaphorically applying it to him self. The figure lies on the studio floor in a dead type of pose while the jam is slapped on to his bare skin.
When asked about the work, the artist tells a story that when he misbehaved as a child he was threatened with the jam spoon. “It was a wooden ‘soup’ spoon I had made in school woodwork class, it never made sense to call it a ‘jam’ spoon, we never made jam with it, our jam was always bought. Would I be hit so hard I would bleed jam? Or would mum cover it in jam and then smack me? I never found out as I could always out-run my mum when she made her move towards the wooden spoon.”