By using materials that can document a process, action, or event, I am attempting to decrease the distance between a specific experience and the representation of that experience. Thus, blurring the boundaries between art and life, sculpture and artifact.
To accurately document everyday events, there must be a system of regulations in place, often designed to remove my hand from the work and allow chance to play an important role in it’s creation and aesthetic appearance. Because Art and chance often describe very different things, it is important to merge random occurrence with mindful creation, reaching a balance between the fixed and variable; art and accident.
This balance is achieved by creating a specific situation or activity, from unconscious sleep to routine dishwashing, in which a variable may operate while leaving a visible history behind. In most cases the variable is my own behavior, the objects that surround me, and the interaction with these objects in everyday events. This documentation translates a specific activity into a readable language of impressions, scrapes, and scratches, uncovering compositions that would otherwise go unnoticed or undiscovered.
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