These sculptures came out of my desire to incorporate the 2-D disciplines of photography and mixed media into a 3-D body of work. Venom abuses photo paper with graphite pencil, ball point ink, and poured bleach. Daily Wash incorporates xeroxed faces, an inverted clothes pole, a fabricated scrub board, and poetry written on the floor. Mourning is a splayed photo collage with ruby stain, chenille worms, suture thread, and a eulogy text. Dirty Work possesses a giant floor brush filled with urethane foam, two photo negatives, and drawn, animated flip books. Crushed contains shredded car tires, four infrared photos, and a central running text of alibis (submitted by actual motorists to their insurance companies after running over pedestrians). Plant Sex is really more about photosynthesis than photography, and its exhibition was self-timed over an approximate two week period, where the Amaryllis plant budded, flowered, and then expired.
Photo Sculptures
