This is some of the work that I have been doing lately in the studio. A departure for those of you who may be more familiar with the labor intensive cutouts and patterning that I was making previously. This work came from my exploration of what was behind that patterning and really is about merging modernism and art history with an impulse to make these little gestures which surround us in our domestic existence.
I want to transform my life, I am nesting, I am watching DIY shows, I am trying to achieve transcendence with pipe cleaners. DIY is about trying to improve yourself and your life by augmenting your surroundings using the quickest and cheapest means possible. Anyone can do it; all you need is yarn, paint, and possibly some upholstery foam.
Marrying the ideas of DIY with abstraction I am attempting to reach beyond the pathetic nature of limp yarn, plastic party tablecloths, and fuzzy pipe cleaners to craft objects that create moments for both contemplation and laughter. Sincerity and sarcasm exist in the same breath as pathetic materials aspire to noble results. There is a relationship established between the seen and unseen, the suggestion that what is physically perceptible also contains a moment of transcendance.
