| I present dualistic tensions between materials and systems in my work in
order to suggest the functional incompatibility of so many things in our
world: representation and reality, life and death, relationships between
people. My sculpture is divided in fundamental ways in order to focus
on the means of opposition as well as the means of joining. This
duality requires, and produces, both doubt and hope. Elements are
combined so they can work together, but they do not become part of a
seamless whole. Many of the pieces have rotating, spinning or balancing
elements expressing transience and mutability. Translucent fiberglass
works in opposition to solid form by allowing the penetration of light.
Steel structures hold space and define edges efficiently, with a 19th
century engineering logic. The resulting work is both with and against
the natural world. This tension or polarity illuminates our own sense
of being in the world, and concurrently feeling separate from it.
Unusual and interesting aspects of presence emerge from the amalgam of
the materials and forms with which I work.
My monotypes offer a parallel experience on paper. The drawing
represents objects, which are simultaneously situations -the tension
between these produces a duality with a similar outcome as that in the
sculpture. Ultimately, I want my work to have a replete physicality,
with a belief in its power to evoke the here and now.
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Monotype 17
As the Crow Flies
