It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
- Laurie ColwinThe collector's experience can still be an existential adventure, a search for the self through objects, an exploration of the world which is at the same time a realization of the self.
- Italo CalvinoIt is now a question of elaborating a material charged with harnessing forces of a difference order: the visual material must capture nonvisble forces. Render visible, Klee said; not render or reproduce the visible.
- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
My practice is guided by a concern with material and essential existence and the thin thread that connects them. I’m interested in the simple ability of the imagination to digest and transcend contradictory aspects of daily activities by way of settling on and sinking into an object, a drawing, an installation. Each work attempts to articulate a sparked second of transcendence through a depiction of impossibility and the demonstration of tedious, repetitive gestures. In this impossible place smallness becomes giant and a moment that is lost easily and likely never to be found is rendered. In that moment, caught in the periphery, a world is born. It is a kind of noplace -where one can be lost and try to locate while recognizing being lost as a place. That these activities cause psychological ambivalence is essential to the materiality, process and scale of the work.
- Materiality because it is linked to the everyday, and specifically the domestic realm, its utilitarian objects, and a search for comfort, for a state of being without intrusion or disturbance, in a space that is inhabitable even when mobile or emotionally uninhabitable.
- Process because it is a meditative act involving gesture and the imagination’s ability to process the constancy of chaos/order in daily activities: tedious tasks, necessary chores, practical choices; these become art in and of themselves. When brought into the social realm they present the possibility for folding worlds, realities and distinctions into each other.
- Scale because it references the contradicting and bewildering world of the child. The success of the work seems very much incumbent on folding the child’s world into that of the adult’s (and several forms oft seen as separate: spiritual/material, real/imagined, childhood/adulthood, domestic/professional, human/animal).
… an organism is enveloped by organisms, one within another … like Russian dolls. The first fly contains the seeds of all flies to come, each being called in its turn to unfold its own parts at the right time. And when an organism dies, it does not really vanish but folds in upon itself, abruptly involuting into the again newly dormant seed by skipping all intermediate stages. …to unfold is to increase, to grow; whereas to fold is to diminish, to reduce, “to withdraw into the recesses of a world".
- Gilles Deleuze