Materials have the potential to transport the mind into faded traditions and make raw connections with past memories. Our pasts, especially the insignificant, dormant or perhaps overlooked bits, can strengthen us in the present and positively influence our future. This is an idea that can dig up mental triggers. Thus I use the mundane, the simple and the bland as structure for fantastical familiarity, absurdity measured through scale, and didactic humor - like casting my crumpled artist statement in bronze, building large steel sculptures based on childhood symbols, or getting pulled over by the police for riding a giant two-person skateboard.
- Subject Matter: object, process, play, mundane, potential, humor, memory, human essence, trauma, identity
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