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Gallery view: "Nest" poplar wood,
43" x 150" x 86" |
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Interior view of "Nest" poplar wood,
43" x 150" x 86" |
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Tea
Drawings
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Artist
Statement: |
A vaulted dome, during its construction, grows brick by
brick with a single purpose. It is concerned with survival, to span a
distance, to enclose a space and to remain stable. Its completed form
is therefore both essential and necessary, a requirement for
existence.
The shape of a wooden canoe reflects a similar purpose. It is curved
and pointed and elongated as much by the nature of water as by the
intentions of the mind that built it. Like the dome, it is the
product of unseen forces, and is willing to conform endlessly to these
forces for its own success.
The boat and the dome and so many other elemental structures, from
water pitchers to suspension bridges, resonate not because their forms
resemble the forms of nature, but because the processes that generated
them resemble the processes of nature. My sculptures are meditations
on these processes. Rather than compose forms, I compose systems,
simple but strict, and work within each to find and build a resonant
form. The resulting object, when successful, conveys the elegance of
the system immediately while inviting a slower contemplation of that
system’s relationship to the manifested form. |
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