studio: nashville, tennessee
studio visit: july 2010
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I am engaged in a dialogue on the cultural habit of marking transitional events. I am drawn to images (flags, festoons, tents, fences, bouquets) that one associates marking temporary site or fleeting action (grand opening, construction). The work is an inquiry into how quotidian images, outside of their original context, can explore personal and collective circumstance.

I often work in series because the use of repetition, as opposed to undermining individuality, heightens difference and variation. The more things close down- the more they open up- the Deleuzian notion of repetition as becoming. Present connects past to future, like a chain link fence or row of orange cones.

This winter-summer I have focused on a series of small-scale sculptural works. Because of their site-specific nature, I have included some installation shots from recent exhibitions.