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Maggie Lee’s autobiographical body of work consists of collages of images and objects. Her works form an intimate material journal that retraces the evolution of a young girl who grew up in the punk, skater, tomboy and hardcore alternative cultures of the 1990s in the USA. Made up of iron wire and a handful of trinkets that children often treasure and keep, the suspended heart has a photograph of an East Village apartment in New York City on one side, and a list of erotic practices experienced by friends of the artist on the other. The title of the work is from a song by Peaches, the queen of electroclash in the 1990s, whose lyrics have a strong sexual connotation. This ornament, similar to a mobile, at once naïve and trash, evokes that pivotal moment when the budding adult still co-exists somewhat with the child.