Statement
As I consider where religion fails and succeeds, a playful, irreverent performance forms where every-day tools become the playthings of faith and devotion. I draw on art history, religious architecture, and ritual objects to force meaning onto these pointless visions. Their common forms entertain me when they pucker and slump as I try to translate them into flimsier materials. In intensely caring for them, their embellishment leans toward a gaudy and overwrought sanctity. Smell and sound compounds to address the whole experience of the sculptures. The soft sculptures put on a good show of their straightforward, functional uses, but once installed in a gallery space, they flaunt their uselessness and take on loaded metaphors.
2018
As I consider where religion fails and succeeds, a playful, irreverent performance forms where every-day tools become the playthings of faith and devotion. I draw on art history, religious architecture, and ritual objects to force meaning onto these pointless visions. Their common forms entertain me when they pucker and slump as I try to translate them into flimsier materials. In intensely caring for them, their embellishment leans toward a gaudy and overwrought sanctity. Smell and sound compounds to address the whole experience of the sculptures. The soft sculptures put on a good show of their straightforward, functional uses, but once installed in a gallery space, they flaunt their uselessness and take on loaded metaphors.
2018
