![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae95ef56fcc79c1258ab25d5488128b142a5564ad71c0acb8f99745f57c27f48/Salazar--Drawing-Center.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68aeadee6e52db4c5b5e7f69daf405ada1115aa747921915137c1c88341953d0/Salazar--Drawing-Center-2.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/358287aa1fc5f3290e111f02ffa2f6c09225dfdeee7e489b9f2904d75b2a81ca/GS_Install.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1517cdb1a03214beb257b5cf87c48988763fa41357b3407742c14211f4da71a9/GS7837.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2dd2f13cd70ab259f3cdb92587f1ec76011badf7201015151dcc326c8853167d/GS7836.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/144883fcc47fe503e4ed72d4bb5e923af24d4d70039003e1423b4f0ffb3938c9/GS7835.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f90bca2c19ad1075830c6b01ce04f1d3e9ccdf2464e8fa37812f6a851103d8bc/GS7834.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b88ce450bdc939a729e93b003a91a9ca660ff618283ef0803489a1fea99df04e/GS7833.jpeg)
![](http://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/070d5fd986a434a4f94f2904dd666d6c4f2dd3d0e7273bb5feec4163dc2e3c6d/HookCrooks.jpg)
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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.