Perfect Distortions

Drawings included in a solo show at Saltworks Gallery
2008

Life on earth commands that the gods and goddesses of Ikea and Home Depot reign supreme and so it follows that these chairs, tables, shelves, sod, yellow flowers, and bricks occupy a significant component of the exhibition space. The interior landscape of retail transforms into a space as the design perfection of Modernist ideals, albeit with emotive restraint, command a larger offering. In Perfect Distortions, I use everyday organic and inorganic materials to construct minimalist landscapes, sculptural glitches, scenarios, and interventions where the common place is glorified. Here, the flawed is seemingly perfected and the familiar is obscured, rendering an emergent and difficult communication to be examined and relearned.