My work involves reclamation and recontextualization of materials. The sculptures and installations I’ve produced in the recent past, constructed with reclaimed tire, concrete fragments, welded steel and wire, have assumed the form of whirling funnel clouds and wall like expanses of strata attended by crows. Migrating groups of dome like forms suggest turtle shells that hover slightly off walls and floors. Profusions of decaying sunflowers cascade from a dubious horn of plenty. All suggest the return of the industrial materials to nature.
My most recent work investigates visual and formal possibilities discovered in an array of cast off objects and humble materials salvaged and acquired along roadsides, construction sites, parking lots and big box retail complexes. It is a way for me to come to terms with the “bounty” existing in urban “sprawl”. The resulting sculptures and installations realized through improvisational operations and processes allow for happenstance often yielding unintentional discoveries. Playful irreverence, contingency, mutability and instability offer me a way to negotiate the tension between; nature / artifice, high/ low, insider / outsider.
My most recent work investigates visual and formal possibilities discovered in an array of cast off objects and humble materials salvaged and acquired along roadsides, construction sites, parking lots and big box retail complexes. It is a way for me to come to terms with the “bounty” existing in urban “sprawl”. The resulting sculptures and installations realized through improvisational operations and processes allow for happenstance often yielding unintentional discoveries. Playful irreverence, contingency, mutability and instability offer me a way to negotiate the tension between; nature / artifice, high/ low, insider / outsider.
