Artist statement
The use of ceramic and acrylic creates an interesting balance between the historically evocative with the modern. The elusive liquid like acrylic acts as a prop to the honed ceramic sections to create a gravity defying balancing act.
From the initial hollow symmetrical form; cuts are made with the view of creating a second tier of objects. The balance of the symmetrical form is then skewed, taken off its axis; to create an asymmetric shadow of its former self. This creates an intriguing and engaging mind game; the reinterpretation of the piece can be seen as a solid whole or in a floating separation. Titles are not given as a defining act but as an instant response from the artist nearly always before the piece is barely started, new eyes; new responses will bestow another interpretation.
These less than human size structures lend an instant intimacy, weighty with industrial/architectural connotations. Core influences are evident; Anish Kapoor, Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Carle Andre, Dan Flavin, and Gyorgy Kepes. Through to architects Luis Barragon, Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, and many more.
We have reached a point of existence that can be measured by many varied positions but the response of our physical and intellectual connection to the present can be better touched on through art; especially sculpture as it holds an intimacy of the known via the materiality and the hand of the maker.
From the initial hollow symmetrical form; cuts are made with the view of creating a second tier of objects. The balance of the symmetrical form is then skewed, taken off its axis; to create an asymmetric shadow of its former self. This creates an intriguing and engaging mind game; the reinterpretation of the piece can be seen as a solid whole or in a floating separation. Titles are not given as a defining act but as an instant response from the artist nearly always before the piece is barely started, new eyes; new responses will bestow another interpretation.
These less than human size structures lend an instant intimacy, weighty with industrial/architectural connotations. Core influences are evident; Anish Kapoor, Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Carle Andre, Dan Flavin, and Gyorgy Kepes. Through to architects Luis Barragon, Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, and many more.
We have reached a point of existence that can be measured by many varied positions but the response of our physical and intellectual connection to the present can be better touched on through art; especially sculpture as it holds an intimacy of the known via the materiality and the hand of the maker.