Introductory / Umbrella Statement
My studio practice involves investigating the physical properties of materials. This exploration results in work that connects process and concept. A thread running through my work is a preoccupation with certain themes and ideas. Like a musician who varies how they perform a piece of music, I explore motifs repeatedly with different instruments, styles and tonalities.
Selected Themes, Concepts & Preoccupations
Paradoxes
Disclosure
Mortality
Intersection of the Arts and Sciences
Experimenting and Collaborating With Tools and Materials, by:
Paradoxes
- Unified opposites. For example:
perfect imperfection, ordered randomness, visible invisibility, preserved destruction - Appreciating beneficial accidents and blemishes such as:
decay, bubbles, devitrification and chemical reactions - The creative liberation achieved by imposing limitations on materials & working methods
Disclosure
- Revealing secrets and what lurks below the surface
- Substantiating the Invisible (for example: air, magnetism and time)
- Portraying things that are too slow, small, distant or inaccessible to see
Mortality
- Memory
- Capturing fleeting moments
- Celebrating the ordinary
Intersection of the Arts and Sciences
- Studio as research lab
- Observing natural forces, human behavior & their interactions with objects & environments
- Systems of logic and organization
- Archiving and/or distributing information
- Specimen display
Experimenting and Collaborating With Tools and Materials, by:
- Trying to stay in control while paradoxically also allowing them to surprise me
- Using unusual substances and techniques
- Achieving results influenced by how they react to each other and my involvement with them
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