Wayfinding (2025)
Clay, wool yarn, fishing line, paper, graphite, construction line, foam core, oriented strand board, map of Evansville
Dimensions variable
I engage with materials in order to understand first what is there, and second what is possible. Moving from a desire to know what is real, I allow materials to reveal themselves to me. Conceptual, theoretical, and political frameworks become tools for a greater depth of understanding and guides for further material engagement.
ie: a net is a way of holding and catching; a flowing thing in the form of a grid, a thing you use on a boat, which must navigate without markers through maps and stars. How do we know where we are and where we are going?
ie: orange is a color used to set a thing apart from the world, from the brown of trees in winter, from the grey of concrete; it distinguishes, calls attention to, and keeps safe through hyper-visibility. What does it mean to find safety in being seen?
ie: a grid is a structure and a representation of a structure, a tendency towards order, a way of holding, of collecting, of organizing. A grid is architecture, system, institution. The perfection of a grid is the thing striven towards but never attained; so what is actually there, in the ruptures, bends, folds, and flows?