Introductory / Umbrella Statement
My studio practice involves investigating the physical properties of materials. This exploration results in work that connects process and concept. Certain themes and ideas preoccupy me and, like a musician, I explore these 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:
On a personal level, my art is about treating limitations as strengths, being in the moment and quieting my mind. My work serves as a catalyst for facing fear and forms a bridge by transforming my tendency for introversion into connection with others.
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:
documenting experimentation. Bringing a visual and conceptual work of art to realization by experimenting with materials and/or the opposite: experimenting with materials resulting in a conceptual work of art. - Observing natural forces, human behavior and their interactions with objects and environments:
artist as cultural anthropologist. Choosing materials and subject matter because of how humans relate to them on an every-day level and using natural forces as tools (for example: sunlight and magnetism). - Systems of logic and organization, archiving and/or distributing information, specimen display.
For example: studying, collecting and/or creating similar things whose differences become apparent only when grouped together (as in a field guide or museum display) so that one can compare them to each other.
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.
On a personal level, my art is about treating limitations as strengths, being in the moment and quieting my mind. My work serves as a catalyst for facing fear and forms a bridge by transforming my tendency for introversion into connection with others.