Time affects everything around us including the society we live in as well as the objects that we use in our everyday living. Time leaves a mark on all of these things as well as the people who use them. Time not only reveals details about an object or a person but it also conceals other details and descriptors through extensive use and deterioration from age.
The examination of artifacts and implements from our past is the driving force behind my sculpture. My interest in industrial artifacts is the focus of this current work, and originates with my family having worked in the pipefitting union for three generations including my own. The longevity of industry, and its ability to change, adapt, and mold itself to an ever-evolving society intrigues me.
The industrial artifacts that I find most interesting are those where a specific utility is not immediately apparent but rather slow to reveal its self. A sense of history, through layers of pealed paint, or the patterns of rust caused from an existence in a caustic environment reveals a great deal about not only the object but the people who used it, or worked in proximity to it.
Though I am not always certain what the artifacts that interest me were used for, I remain interested in them for their shape, composition, surface, potential utility, but most of all the sense of its existence in time prior to the present. In my own pieces, I strive to engage the viewer to examine the nuances of each piece to determine for themselves what the object might be or may have been and how it might relate to something in their own they recognize in their own history.
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