List made in Coal City, IL and Florence, MA

phenomenological - personal

ephemeral - eternal
home - near
humble - transformative
everyday - everyday
myth - spirit

birth - death

Dots, Circles, and Points

I've been reconsidering the Dot series of works. They live as a strong aesthetic form, with some connection to found ephemeral objects and a type of idiosyncratic signature. In my search of the meaning of these forms I ask myself, 'What does the dot mean?' I think by switching the context (the paper the dot is on) can inform this. What if the dot appeared on a map?

The concentric circles mimic (although abstracted) the points that are locations on the map. There by the form of the dot becomes a strange place - such as a blast zone, abstracted roads/map-forms, or aesthetic intervention. Most importantly the form of the dot fits the context of the map through shape and colors.

Chernobyl fallout zone

Dot as place and location. The following Kleenex box was photographed in Florence, MA.

the gray is here

at 2pm today i went on the roof behind my apartment and tried to take a picture of where i thought the sun was. this was the closest of 10 photos. the gray is here. light that chills fingers and toes.

Abe Says...

So Abe was evidently a punk and Illinois needs another one of these sculptures.
Check out the list on the left:
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/art/sculpt.htm

A clementine, a pot of coffee, and Tom Friedman

I've made 2 food based works recently. The repaired clementine is made of the peel and tape. Below is a poem.
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Morning Ritual

coffee
coffee
coffee
poop

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Both of these can be related to something I read in an essay on Tom Friedman called "Self-Portrait as Untitled (without Armature)" by Bruce Hainley:

"Some artists work at home. Even when they're in a studio, it's a home-made practice... Joseph Cornell, despite his dream travel, quite at home. Marcel Duchamp, quite at home too. The boîte-en-valise[directly translated as 'box-in-bag'], the museum in a suitcase, just an italicizing of this fact, as is his sister's being the one to assemble and label some of the readymades. Staircase, chocolate grinders, perfume bottles, drag accouterments, dust breeding, breathing: these are the stuff of a homebody.
...Everything that Freidman needs to make his work is at home. Yet it's uncanny how it never seems to be about the domestic... Nothing homey even though it's home-made..."

Tom Friedman - Untitled (soap and pubic hair) 1990

The notion of home and humble have been a part of my work for quite a while (in materials and occasionally content) and it can be a slippery place in my work. My work is always personal and made from what is at hand (near might be a better term). This has become more evident now that I have moved into an apartment with my fiancee where my studio and living space are one. In previous apartments I have viewed 'homey' creations such as this clementine as play and cursory to my practice. I am revisiting actions like painting lines on my former roommate's 3-day-old pizza left on our counter.

I'm black, I'm white

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A Modern Monument

I created a new sculpture today.
A Modern Monument (4 feet, 33 inches cubed)
I can install it anywhere.
The size is 81" x 81" x 81"
The medium is space
Above is a computer generated model of the piece.