STATEMENT OF WORK

I work in the uncomfortable space between fine art and design. By working between these two definable fields i hope to somehow identify and occupy it; a third field. In this new place there are different rules, or perhaps no rules at all. When i find it, this place, i will describe it to you in greater detail.

The machine studies were made, both out my intrest in communicating form and mass on a flat surface, and out of a desire to distill something from this peculiar subject, industrial manufacturing equiptment. These artifacts are i think an embodiement of "the greatest generation", and the legacy which surrounds it. The period directly following WWII, in the U.S.was a time of great prosperity, but also massive inequality, and unchecked environmental destruction. These machines "saw it all", and eventually came to reside in warehouses, eirlly quiet places much like nursing homes; object and people, forgotten by time. Though i am not currently working on this series, i still see these objects as shadow partners of a generation, and still consider my study of them a meditation on a generation and the way they lived.

The most recent work is in some ways an almost involuntary reaction to the unprecedented health crisis we are now experiencing. Slip cast stoneware objects made in the form of the simplest life saving device we've likely ever developed; the N95 masks. Less than an ounce of fibrous cloth and elastic banding, but those that needed them did not have them. There will be senate hearings, and lawsuits, and new regulations, but none of that will bring back those lost. I continue to make these objects, each one stamped by hand with a "t" for trump, and a "45" for his *presidency, and in doing so various things occur to me. Stacking them has revealed an interesting, albeit flaccid column, which seems to fit, but i'm still working it out.