Sit of Faith

This object needs your trust. It needs you to believe that it is a chair, believe that it wants to be a chair. Without you, it is simply not a chair. This object changes its physical shape, and perhaps its role in the room, when in a non-chair state.

sit of faith / steel, aluminum, wood, rubber, teflon, lead shot, sinew / 48” x 38” x 24” / fall 2007

Five Easy Pieces (in White)

Five vacant pocketwatch cases are venues for a collaboration of slippery concepts: the semantics of ‘white’ and the pragmatics of time.
From left to right...
white flag: Doves triumphantly tangle themselves in geometric exultation of the tiny and the precious. The ‘diamond’ rotates at 6 degrees a second in an effort to further sparkle your eye.
white lie: A seeming innocent action solidifies and traps the movement; the plaster drys and the moment is recorded. It is a traceable regret which continues to erode, now the authenticity of everything is questioned.
white wash: The surface is censored. A layer of white begins to obscure the truth underneath: overspray on a wood bench, efflorescence on masonry, ice on a small branch. Time allows exposure, and exposure steals the details.
white noise: The corporeal time is obscured by the sandblasted surface. Only the application of a wetting agent to the crystal will help you separate the signal from the noise.
white hot: Seconds shout at you in both analog and digital dialects, just to make sure you are aware that time is far from patient. It doesn’t matter what hour it is, it matters only that time has been lost. Do something – not nothing – and do it right now.

Detail images...

five easy pieces (in white)
found objects, purchased objects, fabricated objects
24” x 16” x 1”
fall 2007

disaster in blaauw 2

I pulverized these plaster molds in the kiln a couple of weeks ago. Damn Blaauws. Damn me for being so impatient and wanting to dry them in the kiln, trying to rush nature.

These were my first attempt at making one-part plaster molds of grocery-store plastic containers, which were to become dishes/platters for the Cup Sale. Thank you, David, for reminding me to photograph them before they journeyed into the kiln to dry...

Anyhow, to make a long story short, after the Blaauw disaster I made 60 of these instead:

These pieces were made by playing with the nuances and irregularities of slip-casting techniques. Drips were left uncorrected to bring attention to the inherent beauty of imperfections.

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sometimes i make things as a way of asking a bunch of questions (like these)

Can a generic object become specific?

How do two materials meet?
What is that space within a fracture?
Can the most logical procedure bear extraordinary results?
What is the potential of a single line?

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action?

It has been a while since I have posted..
I have been making...I just haven't been documenting what I've made (yet).

But I offer the following as evidence that 'things' are, in fact, being made...