Carefully patched, stitched, and stretched from pieces of wool, cotton, and loden cloth and embroidered with a cute cluster of mushrooms--one of von Bonin's personal motifs--they play off feminine conventions just as her missile mocks stereotypical ma sculinity.
Her work might well manifest the signs and/or symptoms of personal investment--her favorite forms worked by hand, the use of loden cloth as a reference to her German identity, the affinity for American pop culture--but such quasinarrative fragments can function doubly as the fodder of absurdity, sarcasm, even irony.