Leave Me Like You Found Me
Continuing themes developed in Sledgmhammer.Bullet.Bomb. this also focuses on how natural disasters and accidents are inevitable but it is human aggression where we experience the loss of art, architecture and historical sites that are neither designed nor intends to be destroyed. To deliberately eradicate identity is to eradicate art and objects of symbolic meaning. We have witnessed systematic destruction of heritage as an attempt to destroy cultural diversity through religious or ideological reasoning, political agenda, activism or cultural curation. I wanted to reimagine an object that is simultaneously a symbol and protectant. When building protective barricades for fortification in front of and around culturally significant objects, artifacts and architecture they then become the new identity and description for the object they are protecting. Through the use of common art making materials: paint, canvas, marble and wood, they are reinterpreted as devices to defend, deter or lessen destruction but also form a new autonomous work to be visited, viewed and contemplated.
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 27 1/2 x 7 x 7 inches
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 29 x 6 x 6 inches
Untitled, 2017, 5 1/2 x 6 x 2 1/2 inches
Odalisque (homage), 2016, acrylic paint, wood wax, mirrored plexiglass, 10 x 3 1/2 x 6 inches
Wait Here While I Go For Help, 2017, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, metal
A Feeling of Total Deep Responsibility, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, wood, 55 x 47 x 26 inches
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 29 1/2 x 7 x 7 inches
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 29 1/2 x 7 x 7 inches
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 26 1/2 x 6 x 6 inches
Destroyed #9, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, wood, varnish, 76 x 37 x 19 inches
This About Sums it Up, 2016, found chewed bone, wire, acrylic paint, 2 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches
Souvenirs and Heirlooms, 2018, pencil shavings, glass jars, cotton, pigmented wax, 3 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2inches
There's Fragility in Protecting What You Have, 2016, wood, varnish, wax, acrylic paint, 26 x 44 x 11 inches
Three Graces (homage), 2016, acrylic paint, wood, wax, mirrored plexiglass, 12 1/8 x 3 1/2 x 6 inches
Two Tortured Souls, 2016, acrylic and oil paint, wood, varnish, wax, 11 x 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches
We Decided All Would Work Out Until it Didn't, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, oil on canvas, 66x 45 x 26 inches
It May Be Time to Rethink the Way You Think, 2017, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, wax, 88 x 40 x 27inches
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 33 1/2 x 7 x 6 inches
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 27 1/2 x 6 x 6 inches
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 24 x 7 x 6 inches
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax 26 x 7 x 6 inches
Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 25 1/2 x 6 x 6 inches
Everything Will Work Out in the End, If It Hasn't it's Not the End, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, oil on canvas, 55 x 46 x 26 inches
Cabin You'll Eventually Live In, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, wood, paint, 14 x 26 x 10 inches
Untitled, 2016, wood, paint, 14 x 22 x 10 inches