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Artist Statement
My work occurs at the intersection of architecture and sculpture, of drawing and object, of feeling and seeing, of space and image. It assumes alternatives to materiality, so we may feel see a space image.
So my media is space ... defined by whatever material armature is needed to reveal the immaterial structure of a spaceimage.
We know these immaterial structures: an axis, a leyline, a line of latitude, a property line, a construction line, a line drawn in the sand, a front-line. The North Pole, the Four Corners, the Great Arc of Newcastle, the Mason-Dixon Line ... all manifest the implicit and systematic applications of geometry that generate human territory and place out of otherwise unremarkable and unresponsive geographies. I'm fascinated that so much of our thought and emotion, our wars and comforts, should be invested in these things that do not exist ...
... but for geometry! We assume geometry exists, without compromise, merciless as a bullet's path (appearing perfect until gravity and drag are accounted for). What you think you see as fatally sharp and straight is really a conjectural trajectory, an idea, even if it kills you. Geometry seems precise until you realize that it is only an image of probability. Priests, politicians and poets are aware of its power to facilitate the human impulse to territorialize, phenomenalize, map, divide, connect, to purify and politicize and poeticize space. It is how space is given meaning is given space. It is present, but it is not there!
The ambiguity generated in my work investigates the tension between this need for, and futility of, finding order. It concocts a finite pattern logic and pits it against the inevitability of open-ended mutation. It explores the simultaneous truth-untruth of mapping.