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The ‘staple painting’ series trap paint drops in a complex system of compartments made by arranging industrial staples on their sides across a canvas surface. My intent is to give a physical body to that which has none; the ephemeral specters of light off a monitor or a mirror. Yet the surface is still hard to pin down as the low relief of the metal staples catches light and shadow; shifting the idea of the surface as the viewer changes positions. |
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The ‘paint drop’ sculptures develop the idea of the ‘staple paintings’ further by trapping fallen paint drops in a grid work of clear vertical rods. Through the viewer’s movements in aligning and de-aligning these pixel-like paint drops, full body portrait forms emerge and vanish. By placing my subjects in a form of ‘stasis’ through the medium I mean not only to protect them for a little while, but alternately to underscore the tenuous nature of human physicality where any moment life as we know it might just collapse into a pool of droplets or drift upwards into the atmosphere. |
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