Materials and Mediums

I attempt to use many non-traditional materials mixed with obvious known sculpture media material. The idea of using recycled and redundant material in my work is a fundamental concern. In reference to my cardboard sculptures, the idea of using this material is interesting to me because of the common use and availability in shipping and packaging and manufacturing. Many of the models and designs that begin in preparation for sculpture are foam, cardboard, and paper. These materials have later become objectified in my mind as a building resource and have become sculptures themselves. The tedious process of cutting, stacking and gluing similar shapes over and over again becomes a critical element in my work. The sum total of these processes becomes the sculpture.

While having explored normal artistic materials, i.e. bronze, steel, aluminum, and canvas, I also attempt each time to look at non-traditional materials such as, carpet, tar, glass cardboard, cork, and foam. The process of putting these materials together and joining them is a critical problem. It is a challenge to create harmony through blending, mixing, and attaching and joining non-traditional to traditional materials. Also time is of particular importance with the construction. The tedium and repetition in hand assembly manipulation and construction locks time into each sculpture as part of the medium. The other dilemma inherent in the manipulation of materials and mediums becomes how to express harmony, beauty, color, tone, and balance in one unified sculpture.

 

 

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