Why I check the little default box for sculpture.
There is not a box for Visual Artist, more importantly I see myself as a Visual Artist who loves to build objects. My work process began as and continues to be a two-dimensional derivative. The end product is still an object regardless of the medium.
'Surroundings' and 'Detours' are the two ongoing projects that have allowed me to further investigate furniture as a medium. This process has established a platform to challenge my intellectual properties, material specificity and growth as a studio artist.
'Surroundings' is a direct response to the environment through metaphors of time. Currently working with specific genus trees and Unitarian furniture parts to suggest a notion of apathy, or disconcert for ecological stewardship. It's an event, perhaps it already happened or the prelude to the event. These current objects are being transformed through new technologies and materials to increase scale, decrease weight and create dynamic forms. 'Familiarture', the prelude to developing Surroundings is more linear and architectural in comparison. I was focusing on human gestures and subjecting the viewer to associate furniture with personal narrative.
With 'Detours' I am specifically exploring an appropriate substitute for tapestries to be used as a medium for my new, yet subtle organic form. The investigation in textiles has awoken the possibilities to make my work more of a social commentary or personal interest and perhaps not so humorous. Focusing upon specificity rather than nostalgia or narrative.
The studio mostly consists of 2D design work including large drawings for new sculpture, architecture concepts and models, tree-house construction documents, along with proposals for outdoor public work competitions, landscapes and site-specific projects and the piles of stuff to be used for 2D collage work.
