Collection seems to be apart of my practice and daily routine so integrally that it proves futile to rally against the natural curve. "Explore and expose those eccentricities that are irrevocably attached to one's own practice"; I seek to turn my introspection outward onto the world at large that I have attached meaning to. Decorated with a compilation of refuse and remnants. I enjoy the natural decay of objects - both physical and emotional - the return and transition through states of existence. Although my interest usually falls to the natural sensibilities of the world - further accentuated by our increasingly technology-infused-fast-paced-cell-phone existence - I would like to combine materials in a way to allow for the transcendence from material to conceptual vessel. Not to mask the use of a natural material entirely but to incorporate the formal qualities of the material itself seamlessly with the emotional impact of the physical object.
So far the collections amount a similar mass of a human-sized termite - alot of dust and piled around a center of trauma. Wood has consumed the studio, truck, and apartment of late and seems to be the material of choice. However, with past experiments of forging steel onto wood, I am looking to combine two naturally occurring materials - wood and stone. The trick being to allow both titans of tradition to coalesce in a way that rings true for a very contemporary world.
