Objects in Place explores seemingly mundane objects of daily life gathered from my personal archived photographs. Taking the primary object from the picture and abstracting it into flatness and non-materiality, I delete all other forms and leave only the shape which may at best trigger a memory of a familiar silhouette.
The activity in the background also becomes abstracted into vibrant explosions of pattern which possess their own kaleidoscopic depth.
The juxtaposition of objects portrayed as emptiness with surroundings portrayed as surfaces begins a playful visual oscillation as well as a rewriting of the relationship between the two.
Translating this exploration sculpturally, these objects as negative spaces have been crafted as three-dimensional non-objects devoid of specificity afloat in their patterns as space.
What began as a simple experiment in simplification, like my Ropes series, developed into a highly involved, process-based and complex exploration. This series is ongoing...
Objects in Place explores seemingly mundane objects of daily life gathered from my personal archived photographs. Taking the primary object from the picture and abstracting it into flatness and non-materiality, I delete all other forms and leave only the shape which may at best trigger a memory of a familiar silhouette.
The activity in the background also becomes abstracted into vibrant explosions of pattern which possess their own kaleidoscopic depth.
The juxtaposition of objects portrayed as emptiness with surroundings portrayed as surfaces begins a playful visual oscillation as well as a rewriting of the relationship between the two.
Translating this exploration sculpturally, these objects as negative spaces have been crafted as three-dimensional non-objects devoid of specificity afloat in their patterns as space.
What began as a simple experiment in simplification, like my Ropes series, developed into a highly involved, process-based and complex exploration. This series is ongoing...
Objects in Place, Firehouse Art Center Longmont CO, Installation View, 2013
Our Courtyard, Marion Street, Denver CO, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Mathias and His Pizza Slice, Colfax Avenue Denver CO, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Gifts for Mathias, Snowmass Village CO, wood and paint, 5” x 1.5” x 8”, 2013
Gifts for Mathias, Snowmass Village CO, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Traffic Cones, Black Rock Desert NV, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Catamaran in West Neck Harbor, Shelter Island NY, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Paper Cut-out Kite Study, Denver CO, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Water Cooler and Bin, Kiowa Creek Sporting Club, Bennett CO, wood and paint, 7” x 1.5” x 6”, 2013
Water Cooler and Bin, Kiowa Creek Sporting Club, Bennett CO, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Tyrell Ranger Station Rooftops, Cloud Peak Wilderness WY, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Baba Wali Food Cart, Josephine Street Denver CO, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Spools of Rope, Hog Island Oyster Farm, Marshall CA, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Mathias’ Old Scout, Marion Street, Denver CO, wood and paint, 7.5” x 1.5” x 4”, 2013
Mathias’ Old Scout, Marion Street, Denver CO, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Berrocal's Patio Furniture, Villanueva de Algaidas, Málaga Spain, 5" x 7", 2013
My Old Schwinn, Green Street, Brooklyn NY, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Tallulah and Finnegan’s Blocks, Shelter Island NY, wood and paint, 5” x 1.5” x 4.5”, 2013
Tallulah and Finnegan’s Blocks, Shelter Island NY, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
Absinthe Glasses, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert NV, ink and colored pencil, 5” x 7”, 2013
'Objects in Place' Reference Photographs