statement

 

My work explores the intersection between perception, knowledge, and physical space.

Specifically, how the mind navigates between what is known conceptually and what is

perceived physically. This overlap is where my practice begins. Here, knowledge is

gained from the space between and is often a matter of perspective, contingent upon

both audience and source. It is through this lens that I examine the role between object

and information. I do this by exploring the sensory relationships we have with materials,

space, language, and form.

In my larger wooden installations I explore definitions of space and mass. They are

constructed quickly and intuitively giving an immediate physical presence to the space.

Somewhere between object and architecture, these installations develop organically

and engage body and mind to contemplate their own involvement in the space.

My sculptures focus on using logical manipulations of simple, common materials that

build on larger, more complex ideas such as objecthood, knowledge, truth, space, time,

and possibility. By taking something as simple as a straw and placing it inside another

straw, I compound it's own linear form. One straw becomes many and allows me to extend

an otherwise castoff object into a larger physical and conceptual space that questions

our relationship to the straw as both formal object and base material.

The origin of my work is influenced by science, philosophy, language and architecture.

In these disciplines knowledge is frequently explained through an interaction between

sight and mind. It is within this space that my work functions. Here, the boundary between

headspace, (such as thoughts, language, and symbols), and experience, (physical, spatial,

and material) however blurred, often work together. In the end, my work challenges

where experience begins and the information that feeds into that experience.