ARTIST TEXT
For Echo of the Inside (Column Cube I), part of an ongoing series, a single mold of a pure cube is repetitively cut, torn, yanked, and coaxed off each successive casting. The same mold is re-pieced together to make consecutively smaller and distorted cuboids, until there is nothing left to suture or to cast into. That is to say, until the seams, shrinkage, gravity-induced distortions and reductions overwhelm the initial form into nothing. It is an affirmative act of destruction. The resulting cubes are stacked into a column that tapers into the air above or settles into the ground below.
From the Shrinking and Disappearing Series, 2005-present.
The Shrinking and Disappearing series is an examination of the structure of making, especially of making sculpture and space. Often, as in Echo of the Inside, the work utilizes a chosen form for a mold that with each successive sculpture deflates and evacuates itself like a paradoxically gravity-bound balloon. The formwork diminishes to a point of failure: eventually, it forms nothing. Sometimes the process eliminates the task of creation, concentrating instead on the processes involved, drawing attention both to the urge to make, to unmake, and to eliminate.
