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Interconnectivity and systems, and the
dualities found within these ideas, lay the conceptual
foundation for my work. Interconnectivity can be perceived as an
underlying human condition. Individuals are interconnected
through labor, trade, environments, and a reliance on community
for survival. These connections are governed by systems
developed to organize the masses and designate rules of conduct.
In my work I create a visual vocabulary
using interlocking modular units fabricated from common building
materials, ceramics, and sometimes newspaper that reference the
Internet and urbanism, as metaphor for interconnectivity. These
two systems inform our world, and suggest infinite growth.
However, within our commuter and time stressed American culture,
these two systems produce a duality, in that they can be seen as
isolating while simultaneously increasing communication.
Additionally, as organizing principles they are in constant flux
oscillating between planned construction, emergent responses,
and natural deconstruction.
My fabrication process has an art
historical lineage in Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s work.
Before beginning each project I develop a system of making ruled
by a set of parameters. Over time I have discovered the emergent
aspect of my work apparent in the unpredictability of which
modular units will interlock with one another and what the final
structure will look like.
What
agency do we then have when we are all interconnected? My work
is commentary on this question. What I propose through my work
is that systems are in place but we can decide how we want to
move within and through them. By making these choices our
environment becomes emergent rather than static. We can also
interconnect with our environment rather than be isolated by it.
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