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| My studio practice is focused on gathering preexisting objects, deconstructing them and then creating sculptures from those elements. The materials I work with come from everyday things, and my references are to other commonplace objects and to popular culture. My goal for each sculpture is to bring together elements from different backgrounds to create a new object that lives in the precarious area between the known and unknown. They allude to a variety of sources and concepts but never too literally. As a result of the decisions I make a tension is created in the work. Ultimately I get at something new but also something that reflects its previous language: a sculpture that at first glance reaffirms assumptions of everyday objects but at further examination resists those notions and lives outside of my understanding. The finished work strives to be both more poetic and allusive. As I'm working, I constantly reconsider the references I build into the sculptures and their contexts. These allusions are drawn from a wide variety of sources: toys, furniture, fairy tales, cartoons, cars, architecture, as well as to the work of other artists. Ideas and forms emerge through the creation of the new object. I continue to experiment with what I am creating and to push the sculpture beyond my initial conception -- cutting and shaping, sanding and gluing, drilling and welding until the parts converge and the content is merged with the form. |
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