Artists Statement

My art practice consists of building sculptural objects influenced by architectural, biological, and natural forms. These constructions find their shape as they are worked and then reworked; a process of deconstructing disparate material into a cohesive whole. Through the this practice I am also a student of physics, invested in the discipline of manipulating material and combining these different sources to see how gravity, space, and light affect and transform them into something else. The art practice is an investigation of the essential changing nature of all material things.

My most recent body of work as a post graduate student has been looking towards natural and animal made structures such as nests, hives, and mounds. Since I am a biological animal in nature myself it makes sense that I would use items in my direct environment to create structures and objects. These materials consist of broken furniture parts, repurposed and cut house shingles, pages torn from dictionaries and biological source books, cardboard, parts from a doll house, thread, and wire. These are brought together with various construction and fabrication techniques using glue, uv based resin, screws, and dowels.

I am interested in advancing how my sculpture relates to and fills space, both in the physical plane of a space, and metaphysical space of a viewers’ mind. We all perceive the world around us differently, and a formal object will relate to more people if it retains a level of ambiguity and mystery. My sculpture is intended to bring up different relational reactions or emotional responses. I strive to develop forms that appear to exist in some stage of metamorphic transformation. The one thing that we can conclude through different perspectives is that everything is changing all the time. This change occurs through the event of two things coming together, of convergence through chemical, physical, and meta-physical interactions. We can conclude through our observation that this change appears necessary for life to commence and seek out an understanding of the nature of our transitional states of being.