Artist Statement -
November, 2010
I like to play with forces hidden in
plain sight. I have great interest in structural forces that form the
world around us. Whether it’s biological, chemical or even astronomical,
there exists underlying patterns that that emerge from the interaction of
simple physical forces.
The underlying framework of my
sculpture rests upon an intuitive understanding of the geometry residing
in such things as hexagonal prism structure of beehive, the tetraradial
structure of a simple sea-sponge, the gravitational superstructure of
galaxy clusters, and even the geometric elegance of soap bubble foam. All
of these organizing structures are a result of interaction of the
fundamental materials and the physical forces they exert.
When I bend and twist my cable
structures, I’m using these same geometric principles. When I force a
regular tetrahedron of stainless steel cable through a quartet of cubes,
the resulting form is an expression of the spherical geometric structure
found in the glass skeletons of zooplankton throughout the ocean,
especially the phylum Radiolaria.
I find a strong resonance with these
forms. The beauty one sees in my work comes from a deep recognition of
these ubiquitous physical forces at play. We are so immersed in these
forms and structures that we can’t even see them anymore. I work to
remind us of this fundamental beauty that we sometime forget.
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