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Broadcasters I see it as a translation of personal associations from a particular time and place into Sculpture and sound. The giant hives, mounted on their steel legs broadcast the sound of a wasp swarm panning from stereo left to right. When the participant stands between them, he or she perceives the swarm to be migrating from one hive to the other. They fly through the ears. At first, this may be an off putting experience, but gradually the wasp sounds accumulate into a musical round; each buzzing phrase repeating, and building on each other to make chords. No longer threatening, the participant hopefully feels invited to put an ear or an eye up to the holes to discover more. It was my desire for the sound and material to be in sync enough to be believed: the hive acting as an acoustical filter, and the music; a sculptural activator. My intention is for the audience to willingly enter a framework where it makes sense for something inanimate to become animate and for animal, human and device to be one. In this way I sought to change personal experience into form and back, (via the social performance of a person hearing and seeing), into experience. I want them to ask: "what is in there? Is it alive?" The "Broadcasters" project began along side a group of drawings which take on the appearance of cosmological diagrams. My interest here was in employing a clear and precise graphic style to communicate connections I have been making between the scientific and the personal. When I draw, I step into the role of the subject. Be it anti matter, a spinning galaxy , or a mountain of coal I think of each line as being made of an almost autonomous substance; a material capable of changing its mind. These drawings are in a dialog with my sculptures. For instance: I think of the black of the holes that make up the Broadcasters hive structure as being made of the same material that orbits, clusters and breaks apart in the drawings. |
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Artist Statement My work begins with an illustration of a fragment of a story. I find inspiration in the moral tales of history, science, and mythology. Inevitably the relationship between illustration and story mutates into one of parasite to its host. Like a wasp that lays it's eggs on the back of a caterpillar, eventually my imagination devours the body of the original text. |
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