3D Statement

In my studio emphasis is placed on asking questions. Concepts dictate materials and processes, not the other way around, and I find something inherently principled and liberating in this seemingly subtle, albeit postmodern, distinction. Answers, in the form of visual outcomes, while fortuitous, are not the sole purpose of this intellectual enterprise.

Many of my sculptures and installations employ a similar text based locus that loosely addresses the theme: book-as-metaphor. One is a series of book objects that are literally carved into symbolic shapes from glued together book pages. What appears to be wood grain are actually individual pages that have been sliced through revealing where the printers ink stained the white paper. This physical cutting and pasting technique is similar to the act of reading and/or writing, where the narrative is constructed one page at a time. Pragmatically and philosophically, all of these book alterations are intended as gestures of renewal and reconsideration: as a form of benevolent recycling that extends known, and stimulates new, narratives. Other mixed media bookish experiments explore the intimacy that exists between the corporeal and conceptual realms of books and our bodies.