I'm driven by the challenge to communicate with objects and materials. The materials become the language.
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Over the last forty years, my contemporary art has been primarily taking ordinary objects and materials and making them into interesting structures or assemblages. I like to play with recognizable objects and forcing them into an uncomfortable situation. My art is driven by salvaged and found raw materials because they have a history, a prior life, or an event that changed their form.
Where do you find inspiration?My overarching theme is taking unlike objects and combining them to create a new identity. Materials that are foreign to each other enhance the properties of one another. Salvaged, found, and raw materials have a former life or an event that changed their form. I like materials that show the scars of their past lives. I combine them in uncommon and unexpected ways giving them a new life and a new purpose.
What would you do with $25,000?$25,000 would plug one of the many holes in my bucket.
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