Red earthenware and porcelain with luster glaze, 2007

  

 

The ineffable phenomenal part of our experiences is one of the few things we truly own. 

What it is like to see a blue sky, taste coffee or wine is very difficult if not impossible to communicate.

 The subjectivity of our experiences is, in my opinion, one of the foundation stones of the self. That is why I find it so important to increase awareness of it in this world of encroaching second-hand impressions and ever growing superficiality.

 By removing the hooks that make it all too easy to make conditioned suppositions of what our senses communicate to us, I seek to increase this subjective awareness by creating tensions through contrasts and ambiguities within my objects:-

 Familiarity           &                Alienation

Organic                 &                Formal

Simple                  &                Complex

Normal                 &                Abnormal

Traditional           &                New

Individual             &                Universal

 The common shape of the cylinder forms the basis of my work.  By deconstructing and reconstructing this form I keep on challenging a traditional view of this familiar object. 

 I reposition the object in the 2 and 3-dimensional space.

I enlarge the form to an almost human scale.

I occupy the walls of the cylinder with a structure that simultaneously divides and supports. This structure starts to inhabit the contained space instead of the container.

 On their own the structures form abstract sculptures.  

Together they can reform the original cylindrical shape.