STICKY STRATA
When harnessed and exploited, repetitive tasks can shift the ordinary—lone socks, gallon milk jugs, cardboard boxes—into something novel. My practice resides here, in the moments of recognizing the beauty in the every day, in the desire to attain the haphazard yet purposeful approach intrinsic in my kids when they create, in the strata of daily existence. It is in these moments that my home and studio coalesce.
Sticky Strata, 2015
White Trash, 2015
Gallon milk jugs, package strapping, brass rivet.
27” x 11” x 4”
One Shingle Short, 2015
Popsicle/craft stick, plywood, string.
18” x 6.5” x 2”
Tri-fold, 2015
Lint, button, string.
18” x 6” x 2.5”
Crushed, 2015
Cardboard, tape, rivets, ribbon.
16” x 4” x 3”
Residual, 2015
Cardboard, tape, food net, threads, pin.
2.5” x 3” x 2”
Floorplan, 2015
Socks, thread.
28” x 8” x 1”
3.21.15 Take Out Onion, 2015
Digital Print, Acrylic.
15.5” x 12”
2.27.15 Yogurt Peppers, 2015
Digital Print, Acrylic.
15.5” x 12”
2.27.15 Yogurt Peppers, 2015
Digital Print, Acrylic.
15.5” x 12”
Sweet Potato Flowers, 2015
Digital Print, Acrylic.
15.5” x 12”
Round, and around, and around
fragments tumble, and are eventually trapped
in a soft rectangle embedded with the traces of home.
Fold and press, fold and press, stack.
Stratum builds, sinks, blend and brews.
Flotsam flows back and forth from the curb.
Daily excess accumulates.
Could you…..? Please, could you…….? PLEASE!!!!
The repetition, the tedium of daily routine is constant
folding, washing, stitching, slicing, wiping, asking, gathering.
One minute it is utter drudgery, the next reverie.