Post, detail
2009
Douglas fir post, printing ink, wood shims.
5.5"x5.5"x8'
My work is based in a practice engaged in sculpture as well as architecture, often inspired by the observation of specific landscapes. I explore the transformation of things - and of places - between the states of Nature, Raw Material, Construction, and Ruin. A multidisciplinary practice has enabled me to think about these transformations in a larger critical context and at many scales of operation, ranging from the urban landscape to the architectural detail. My recent work is objects and site-specific installations which seek to simultaneously contain states of construction and ruin; structure and debris.
Reconstituted Architecture and Posts are my two current bodies of work. Reconstituted Architecture is a series of gabion constructions using textiles as a structural and representational skin for rubble and gravel piles. The compressive load of the fragmented ground is re-organized vertically by the running bond, ashlar masonry pattern of the crocheted tubular skin in tension. In the Posts series, I have been systematically taking apart standard 4x4 and 6x6 wood posts through cutting and splitting to re-build them as sedimentary constructions. In both sets of work, processes of erosion and accumulation have been woven together to create objects that are simultaneously pile and pillar.
I have been using wood and stone as the primary materials in my recent work. The process through which these materials have been transformed from indistinguishable parts of a landscape into raw material has involved a displacement from context and fragmentation into specific dimensional shapes and units, followed by transportation for use elsewhere. As units of material, they still retain a memory of their origin, development, and metamorphosis. I’ve sought to create constructions with these materials by continuing this process further, often using a single unit of material as a quarry in and of itself. These works are intended to both refer to a memory of the “past” – nature or architecture - of a material, and also anticipate a “future” construction, which may be neither. In this sense, as fragments suspended between different states, these objects are meditations on sculpture as (eternally) pre-architectural detail.¬¬¬¬
2009
Douglas fir post, printing ink, wood shims.
5.5"x5.5"x8'
My work is based in a practice engaged in sculpture as well as architecture, often inspired by the observation of specific landscapes. I explore the transformation of things - and of places - between the states of Nature, Raw Material, Construction, and Ruin. A multidisciplinary practice has enabled me to think about these transformations in a larger critical context and at many scales of operation, ranging from the urban landscape to the architectural detail. My recent work is objects and site-specific installations which seek to simultaneously contain states of construction and ruin; structure and debris.
Reconstituted Architecture and Posts are my two current bodies of work. Reconstituted Architecture is a series of gabion constructions using textiles as a structural and representational skin for rubble and gravel piles. The compressive load of the fragmented ground is re-organized vertically by the running bond, ashlar masonry pattern of the crocheted tubular skin in tension. In the Posts series, I have been systematically taking apart standard 4x4 and 6x6 wood posts through cutting and splitting to re-build them as sedimentary constructions. In both sets of work, processes of erosion and accumulation have been woven together to create objects that are simultaneously pile and pillar.
I have been using wood and stone as the primary materials in my recent work. The process through which these materials have been transformed from indistinguishable parts of a landscape into raw material has involved a displacement from context and fragmentation into specific dimensional shapes and units, followed by transportation for use elsewhere. As units of material, they still retain a memory of their origin, development, and metamorphosis. I’ve sought to create constructions with these materials by continuing this process further, often using a single unit of material as a quarry in and of itself. These works are intended to both refer to a memory of the “past” – nature or architecture - of a material, and also anticipate a “future” construction, which may be neither. In this sense, as fragments suspended between different states, these objects are meditations on sculpture as (eternally) pre-architectural detail.¬¬¬¬
