c l's profile
started out as a painter and gravitated toward sculpture. found the materials thought of as trash fascinating , more so than pristine new material. my goal is to find the core essence of any of the detritus i am working with - stripping down motors, air conditioners, - anything really to get to the pure shapes so i can get to work combining items and make a new whole.
i feel very strongly about reusing, frugality,making do- not in a tightfisted, stingy way but in a curated,thoughtful way. why purchase new materials when i can use existing .as a maker i have a duty not to contribute to more 'junk' , not to make something just to have more numbers. more is not always better.
some pieces have only one or 2 elements- the drowning piece is comprised of pool lane line floats in a wooden box- 52 boxes with 21 floats each- 1 for each week in a year- 1092 total - representing the number of children that drown every year.
cheap shirts piece highlights the fact that working people to death in the factory setting for the cheap clothing is not new , been going on for almost 200 years..never makes it right.
not all my work is overtly social- but i do try to keep in mind with each piece i am reusing something and must respect the source material and create an interesting new whole.
there is always an element of the human in my work, people created the original materials that went into products i disassemble. computers where assembled by people, someone put that typewriter together,the air handling unit components did not make themselves.......i have respect that.
my work is not pretty but i do hope it will engage a viewer. like it or not having an opinion is the point of art. if it starts a dialog i have done my job.
i feel very strongly about reusing, frugality,making do- not in a tightfisted, stingy way but in a curated,thoughtful way. why purchase new materials when i can use existing .as a maker i have a duty not to contribute to more 'junk' , not to make something just to have more numbers. more is not always better.
some pieces have only one or 2 elements- the drowning piece is comprised of pool lane line floats in a wooden box- 52 boxes with 21 floats each- 1 for each week in a year- 1092 total - representing the number of children that drown every year.
cheap shirts piece highlights the fact that working people to death in the factory setting for the cheap clothing is not new , been going on for almost 200 years..never makes it right.
not all my work is overtly social- but i do try to keep in mind with each piece i am reusing something and must respect the source material and create an interesting new whole.
there is always an element of the human in my work, people created the original materials that went into products i disassemble. computers where assembled by people, someone put that typewriter together,the air handling unit components did not make themselves.......i have respect that.
my work is not pretty but i do hope it will engage a viewer. like it or not having an opinion is the point of art. if it starts a dialog i have done my job.
