"I have made work with explicit purpose for many years, furniture mostly. In doing so, I can focus on the specific functional questions -- does it illuminate a room? Can you sit on it without falling? Aesthetics are involved, and occasionally there is some small kernel of abstraction, but the exercise is as much avoidance of deeper questions as it is an attempt to engage with the literal world.
So, this is an attempt at "spiritual furniture" -- it's too dim to read by, and it's not for sitting, but it can ask questions and tell stories.
The wood is red mulberry and osage orange, native species of my part of the United States, and the paper is Japanese washi made from kozo, the Japanese paper mulberry. All three are regional representatives of the family Moraceae. The other major branch of this family is the genus Ficus -- including the banyan (ficus benghalensis) and the bodhi tree (ficus religiosa)."
--introduction from the exhibition companion book
Awards and Shows:
"Transmigration" featured in 2019 Clintonville Arts Guild Show, "Tying Up Loose Ends," at Upper Arlington Concourse Gallery
So, this is an attempt at "spiritual furniture" -- it's too dim to read by, and it's not for sitting, but it can ask questions and tell stories.
The wood is red mulberry and osage orange, native species of my part of the United States, and the paper is Japanese washi made from kozo, the Japanese paper mulberry. All three are regional representatives of the family Moraceae. The other major branch of this family is the genus Ficus -- including the banyan (ficus benghalensis) and the bodhi tree (ficus religiosa)."
--introduction from the exhibition companion book
Awards and Shows:
"Transmigration" featured in 2019 Clintonville Arts Guild Show, "Tying Up Loose Ends," at Upper Arlington Concourse Gallery
