I’ve always been captivated with a story. The way a well-told tale can build a scene with carefully crafted characters is fascinating. I don’t mind if it’s the outlandish found with in an ancient mythology or the daily musings of friends’ lives as they happen. Both fact and fiction have their own enticing nuances. Real anecdotes allow for empathy to be shared between the teller and the listener, which can create a bond between them. While fanciful tales make room for the imagination to stroll around and add in its own twists to what is possible.
It is between these two realms of fact and fiction that I develop objects and installations that illustrate the core idea of these stories I gather. Pieces are then considered in relation to the size of the human body as to allude to an interaction that could be had with the work. In some instances an intimate object that can be held represent the narrative or more recently the work has expanded into life size scenes. This relation to the body grounds each piece with something familiar for the viewer to begin with. Like a tall tale the use of abstraction is imposed to personify the key idea being told. This change to the original truth through exaggeration is what helps push the narrative I am telling forward for the viewer.
It is between these two realms of fact and fiction that I develop objects and installations that illustrate the core idea of these stories I gather. Pieces are then considered in relation to the size of the human body as to allude to an interaction that could be had with the work. In some instances an intimate object that can be held represent the narrative or more recently the work has expanded into life size scenes. This relation to the body grounds each piece with something familiar for the viewer to begin with. Like a tall tale the use of abstraction is imposed to personify the key idea being told. This change to the original truth through exaggeration is what helps push the narrative I am telling forward for the viewer.
