2017 - present
Hook Crooks
see Hook Crook, Fair Foul
The handrail is a system for support that bridges the space between a body and structure. These works play with the formal aspects of a handrail, but disrupt expectations of stability, assistance, or guidance with their inherent precarity, vulnerability, and displacement. The materials I use to make the rails vary, but I often use plasticine, an oil-based clay that never completely hardens or dries, records its own making and the touch of curious viewers, bridging a gap between the hand and the eye.
Hook Crooks take on an ambiguous quality; each conceived of as a displaced section of rail, they do an uncomfortable double time as possible staff or baton, putting into play an expansion of the definition of a "tool of support." They wait, cantilevered, in large steel hooks set in the wall. The hooks are ones you would find in a garage or industrial space, and here they lend the railings a sense that they are a part of a system, tools.
see Hook Crook, Fair Foul
The handrail is a system for support that bridges the space between a body and structure. These works play with the formal aspects of a handrail, but disrupt expectations of stability, assistance, or guidance with their inherent precarity, vulnerability, and displacement. The materials I use to make the rails vary, but I often use plasticine, an oil-based clay that never completely hardens or dries, records its own making and the touch of curious viewers, bridging a gap between the hand and the eye.
Hook Crooks take on an ambiguous quality; each conceived of as a displaced section of rail, they do an uncomfortable double time as possible staff or baton, putting into play an expansion of the definition of a "tool of support." They wait, cantilevered, in large steel hooks set in the wall. The hooks are ones you would find in a garage or industrial space, and here they lend the railings a sense that they are a part of a system, tools.