Steps

2022

Wood, paint, wood glue, sand, text

“I find great inspiration and motivation to make artwork about how humans interact with each other. Although human psychology has been extensively researched, there is something still so fragile and indescribable about how people relate to each other. My work focuses on a range of relationships that include the dynamic between two people and miscommunication with one’s self. Through the use of altered imagery and abstracted forms, my artwork explores the delicate and magical nature of memory, language, and communication. For each piece, a process of taking a medium or language, applying some sort of purposeful distortion or obstruction, and creating a new form of multiple abstracted iterations was used. The piece Steps is the most straightforward illustration of this process. For this piece, I found written instructions for how to build a wooden ladder and built a ladder based off of those instructions. I then took the instructions and ran them back and forth through multiple languages in Google translate. This distorted the instructions and an abstracted version of the ladder was made based off of those instructions. This process was done a final time to create an even more abstracted form, turning a utilitarian object into something entirely useless.”