As learned through the design of buildings, mainly public buildings, projects become rich and thoughtful through the process of design.\u00a0 Working and re-working iterations in a tactile manner through models and drawings hones and develops a project from a simple idea into an interweaving of informed decisions that transcend the work from good to great.\u00a0 Counterintuitively, the more constraints placed on an architectural project from the beginning inform the design and guide the process towards a better outcome.<\/p>\n
The process of making art is not dissimilar.\u00a0 Discoveries are made and built upon during the total immersion of making a piece which informs that work and\/or contributes ideas for the next.\u00a0 As in Architecture, craft is an important component in working.\u00a0 Thoroughly immersing oneself in craft and honing this skill throughout the process of creating yields pieces that are just as important as the finished work that is being constructed.\u00a0 Jigs are made.\u00a0 Waste is collected and saved.\u00a0 A book has been cut in order to extract the words or names needed for a drawing.\u00a0 Something from everything and everything is potentially a work of art.<\/p>\n
As a conceptual artist I am most drawn to working with material and content that comes loaded with ingrained meaning and nostalgia.\u00a0 I typically identify with a concept, whether playful or cynical, in the media I choose and this becomes the starting point.\u00a0 From here I begin to deconstruct and completely displace the intended form from its original context.\u00a0 Re-imagining and refitting in a very tactile process until a new form emerges along with the hope that a new perspective will be perceived from something that had such engrained prepossessed meaning, challenging what we all take for granted.<\/p>\n
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