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The built environment and urban planning
strategies designed to navigate this type of space influence my
art practice. The conceptual foundation for my work focuses on
how the contemporary condition of interconnectivity found in
labor and commerce as well as an individual’s agency affects
this environment. To address this concept, I create research
based site-specific installations. These installations are
comprised of an architectural vocabulary fabricated from common
building materials such as ceramic and wood. My construction
process is labor intensive and repetitive echoing the mass
production of buildings and consumer products. I investigate
issues that arise in cities such as urban development projects,
eminent domain, red lining, sprawl, and subdivision of land. I
also address suggested solutions such as master plans and
pattern languages. My work is a metaphor for a city in flux that
can be interconnected, but can also be moved, stacked, and piled
rather than mortared together. I loosely define my intentions
for the outcome of an installation and then allow an emergent
aspect to develop. I allow for the viewer to feel a sense of
agency that is sometimes missing in the built environment by
inviting them to help install on site or enter into a
construction site. |
