Familiars, Out of Towners, as Well as All the Others
Initially created using a layering process of familiar found objects, the artist attempted to focus on line and contour while re-imagining common architecture found in both nature and civilization in order to allow the materials to become 'more than themselves'. Stalactites, clouds, hives or nests, sea urchins, teeth, ghosts, calcification, dresses, curtains, and bed linens are all potentially described.
Toothpicks become a set of teeth in their own right, both combative and on guard; rather than covering body, stiffened fabrics become body; elastic chains support and strengthen one another. Other objects are restrained, kept from reaching their full potential: a weighted balloon, tangled and dangling ribbon. In their ambition to act as a rigid skin or membrane, fabrics lose their ability to provide comfort. Regardless of whether fused materials surpassing expectations or become completely defeated in function, they unassumingly communicate with each other in order to mirror our everyday interactions with strangers.
Viewers were invited to leave their own sentimental or found objects with the sculpture of their choice throughout the duration of the exhibition as a way of continuing this conversation. The offerings - or, in some cases, the discards - were periodically incorporated into the existing installation, with ongoing photo documentation recording the process. Contributors were able to consciously/subconsciously demonstrate their own expressiveness or voice a visual critique.
Initially created using a layering process of familiar found objects, the artist attempted to focus on line and contour while re-imagining common architecture found in both nature and civilization in order to allow the materials to become 'more than themselves'. Stalactites, clouds, hives or nests, sea urchins, teeth, ghosts, calcification, dresses, curtains, and bed linens are all potentially described.
Toothpicks become a set of teeth in their own right, both combative and on guard; rather than covering body, stiffened fabrics become body; elastic chains support and strengthen one another. Other objects are restrained, kept from reaching their full potential: a weighted balloon, tangled and dangling ribbon. In their ambition to act as a rigid skin or membrane, fabrics lose their ability to provide comfort. Regardless of whether fused materials surpassing expectations or become completely defeated in function, they unassumingly communicate with each other in order to mirror our everyday interactions with strangers.
Viewers were invited to leave their own sentimental or found objects with the sculpture of their choice throughout the duration of the exhibition as a way of continuing this conversation. The offerings - or, in some cases, the discards - were periodically incorporated into the existing installation, with ongoing photo documentation recording the process. Contributors were able to consciously/subconsciously demonstrate their own expressiveness or voice a visual critique.