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Ad Reinhardt once said "Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to look at a painting." Most of what I do is sculpture, but it would be difficult to bump into, as I am primarily interested in the relationship between a form and the reference of a smooth, blank wall. Even my works done in the desert can be seen laying on some gigantic horizontal wall, which stretches for miles. This linearity of walls and lakebeds accentuates the physicality of the work, and gives it life.
The uniformity of surfaces the sculpture is placed on highlights the irregularity of the work—as I am very interested in decay. Decay as the antithesis of immortality. Decay to be accepted and admired as the same path that we ourselves are on. We will age (if we are lucky), and we will die. Everything in this world is falling apart constantly. I seek to arrange this "disaster" with the spirit of renewal. Working with temporal and organic materials, I hope to point to a transcendental truth about the destructive power of the world: there is always a new beginning.
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