art&misc.

“Objects and sculpture are of the world and yet speak beyond the material

everyday.”

-Imogen Racz.




This in-progress-series of artworks engages unique materials, settings, and construction processes, estranging items from their everyday use and reframing their meaning and relation to the human body. By manipulating material, color, and scale, banal items are transformed into foreign objects, becoming inscrutable sources for curiosity and confusion.  

The following 2D and 3D works share this conceptual premise, but explore different media, ranging from sculpture, to collage, to painting. Each piece is constantly susceptible to change, being morphed, elaborated upon, or translated into another medium.

As this process repeats over time, external and internal references become blurred, distancing the artwork from its original reference. Through incremental alteration, each piece builds upon itself; developing its own logic and vernacular, painting elaborate embedded histories within each object.   Through this process, each object escapes its own banality.
Artworks and sculptures are based on found objects of everyday life. Each begin with an external reference, i.e. a brick or an element of a gothic painting, and build off of this reference until the work becomes something that is neither strange nor familiar.