Artist Statement
I make site-specific installation- total environments, considering all features of an interior space and using these to construct a place with a cause.
To me, the main brilliance of our age is that it’s electric.
The unlocking of this element has coincided with, if not allowed, modernity and its fast, fractious ways. Despite electricity’s overwhelming application for distraction, I am compelled by whether it can be emptied of its speed and menace to facilitate contemplation, much like water.
Light forms a key component in much of my installation and sculpture. Through the difficulties experienced in the documentation of my work I have come to appreciate, and purposefully engage, the subtle capabilities of sight. The sophistication of sight is often engaged by our visually rich culture with messages to buy or believe. I prefer to similarly engage sight, without such overt message, in an attempt to create a moment for psychological reprieve, or dreaming.
The combination of simple things such as butter, water or glass is to demonstrate the potentials for meaning in things unsophisticated and elemental. My intention is to inspire an interpretation of objects contrary to that prescribed by our common (corporate) material economy.
Making personal links - concrete or conceptual - between corporeal things is to maintain a key vitality or sovereignty within any prescribed way of living. My hope is to encourage such autonomy.