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Bio and Artist Statement Background: B.A. University
of Florida, Minor in Fine Arts Shows and Exhibitions: 2006
Capital
Arts Network National Juried Exhibition "Love, Hate, Love Artist Statement:
Glass in its most primitive and basic form is silica. The ancients
discovered this amazing material over two thousand years ago. I am
interested in working with glass in a form closest to its most basic
state. By casting molten glass into a mold of moist sand an clay,
I am able to achieve a result that resembles something dug up in an
archeological expedition.
I frequently combine a sand cast glass figure with an interesting old object, particularly old tools or other utilitarian implements. I am particularly interested in objects that have an unfilled negative space. I find unlimited possibilities in objects that have served their useful lives and have been discarded or relegated to garage sales and flea markets. To embellish these with sand cast glass forms causes them to take on new life and meaning. I want the pieces to make strong statements of irony and disorientation.. To achieve this, I use incongruous symbols placed in unusual and unexpected ways.. In today’s “information age,” we are constantly bombarded with often conflicting messages and images. Rather than drive oneself crazy by trying to reconcile or make sense of it all, sometimes it is more fun to just go with the flow. Some of my work deals with serious themes such as social injustice or capital punishment, but most are whimsical, satirical or simply decorative. Most of my inspiration comes from the found object itself. It may lay around for months or years until it finally speaks to me and tells me what it wishes to become. Titles are carefully considered and chosen, so as to give the viewer a hint as to what the work suggests to me. However, I like the viewer to place his or her own interpretation on them, and I am delighted when someone suggests a meaning in them that never occurred to me. |
