My work exists between our human scale and the wild landscape. A relationship which is phenomenal but has been interrupted by a digital world view that is individually unsustainable and collectively viral.
It is about energy source and energy exhaustion. Generation, action, labor, and the physical intellectualization of making things, of working through material, of the artist experience.
I objectify the landscape to show reverence for our forever old relationship. I celebrate it with gratitude, melancholy, and joy. These sculptures reference volunteerism as inevitable growth, volume as history, shape as behavior, and plant as object.
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