I think of the nature of architecture as it pertains to both the shape of our bodies and how we perceive space.
I work with the idea of sculpture that suggests ways of experiencing architecture, and architecture that suggests ways of experiencing sculpture. Both serve to influence and question our relationship to the spaces we inhabit and experience, working upon us in ways that are palpable if not necessarily perceptible.
I explore these modes of thought and models of design through the process of making sculpture and works on paper. As a means of envisioning my work in an environmental construct more suited to its existence; to see in situ, the sculptural pieces I imagine, I combine these elements in an almost theatrical manner. In doing so, I create the same willing suspension of disbelief inherent in the performance of puppet theater, or within the backdrops of imagined and idealized landscapes so prevalent in early portrait studio photography.
By utilizing both forms of image making I am better able to see and understand the relationship of my works to one another and to the spaces they inhabit, ideally resulting in a dialogue I might coerce and eavesdrop upon.
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