EXHIBITION STATEMENT
The world is complex and beautiful and I get overwhelmed by it. I think one purpose of my work is to help me make sense of it all - language, religion, how plants grow and buildings are built. Everything exists in relation to everything else. The grid helps me take inventory and organize information.
I’ve always been a play-oriented person, but as I’ve matured I’ve recognized my tendency toward organization. These two traits, which initially seem at odds, complement each other quite well. Routine and habit allow room for innovation; pattern gives structure to play. The desire to create order out of a beautiful, yet chaotic world is a defining aspect of what it means to be human.
Our species has a complicated relationship with our environment. At our best, we work with nature to make things that are more than the sum of their parts in wildly unexpected ways. I’m an observer, a tinkerer: I put one thing next to another, and another. Then I look, and I feel, and I listen, and I wait, and I change it around. I can’t force a miracle through intellect or effort, but if I sit still long enough, things reveal themselves, and slowly or all at once something begins to happen.
