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Can you talk
about your sculpture?
My work is
rooted in physical and poetic understandings of nature, (and I mean
nature in the sense of an inter-connected web of people, places, and things.) I
place a special emphasis on the relationship of these understandings to my own
emotional life. The invisible life of emotions is fascinating to me, and
while I’ve used many materials over the years, wood, intensely familiar and
knowable, remains the best-suited material for constructing three-dimensional
objects that serve as metaphors for human stories. For me, the most prominent –
and interesting – characters in these stories are unfulfilled desires, fear,
and the expression of a longing for safety and comfort in all its
manifestations. I make vessel or “basket” informed work – pieces I
call bascauda, from Latin meaning kettle or table-vessel – and think of
these as keeping places for past remembrances. I also make work I
callmembrana – from Latin meaning parchment or that which covers members
of the body – these works recall boats and/or shields, essentially objects
that cover and protect the self. My work method involves a lot of
laminated wood construction, weaving, binding, etc. I’m drawn to very low-tech
assembly methods because I like the direct connection with the materials. I use
machines and current technologies, but simply can’t stand the “distance” this
puts between me and my work. I like to think of the layers of wood like layers
of memories accumulated over time that, like memory, possess both a sense of
certainty and a sense of the uncertain.
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