Waste and Weight

I liken my practice to the event of a car crash. Serendipitous collisions between objects and chance encounters that spark revelations I believe to be responsible for artworks. This statement also refers more literally to the types of objects used to make products which are often found on the roadside. Suspension coils, traffic lights, tail lights, busted bike locks and metal railings. Subsequently, using a variety of approaches and rigorous processes to prepare these materials to be reworked.

Persevering through this long period of hoarding, I’m looking to come out the other end, a partially reformed magpie. Habitual behaviors of collecting and choices I make of preserving are compulsive and symptomatic of our epoch, The ‘Capitalocene’. I present objects from my immediate environment and experiment with modes of presentation, salvaging existing components to add to or complete pre-existing collections. I believe an archive to be living and ever changing. I research and trial methods of organization as a framework to present personal archives that associate functionally different objects. Finding ways of interrelating them into assemblages in order to make familiar, visual imagery.