It’s Becoming Familiar
THE BOULDER CREATIVE COLLECTIVE, BOULDER, COLORADO | FEBRUARY 8TH - MARCH 8TH, 2020
It’s Becoming Familiar takes place within an abstracted home; various objects, potentially personal, potentially gifted, hang on the wall and artist-created furniture is placed throughout the space. Certain objects command attention while other objects do well to fade into the background, only to be noticed upon closer inspection. Throughout the day, the natural light changes the way the space is activated. Lived-in spaces and used objects hold history, and paired next to artist-created objects, tell a crafted story of a life condensed.
The materials each specifically reference something from the artist’s home, integrating elements from his childhood house as well as his current home. These materials speak to home renovation, being a first time homeowner in a growing city, experiencing textured walls for the first time, watching light cast through windows, wandering alleys, and observing leaves collecting and creating patterns on the drive leading to the front door.
On the exterior walls of the gallery, the viewer is asked to observe two distinct places. On one wall we find a kind of showcase of objects from near and far; objects from the past and from the present and from the future, all of a similar size collected like rocks from childhood and presented as such.
The opposite wall gives the viewer an opportunity to explore the stars and create their own destiny with Pocket Constellations.
Between Sons
Mixed Media Installation
96” x 108” x 56”
2020
In 2019, my brother and I both got married, as well as purchased homes in Montana and Colorado respectively. During the same year, we both took large life steps together, while further cementing our short term futures in separate states. This work considers the invisible connections that exist between people--in this case, my brother specifically--and the origin of which those connections develop. The deeply rooted scaffolding we have both built upon from our childhood, the parallel lives we have lived through adolescence, as well as the lives we have chosen to pursue once leaving our childhood home, now further away but somehow still running alongside each other.
So Long
Mixed Media Installation
96” x 86” x 44”
2020
“So long, and thanks for all the fish,” states the population of dolphins as they ascend into the air and leave the planet Earth in Douglas Adam’s classic sci-fi adventure series the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
This work, taking on a shortened version of the quote, thinks about parting ways gracefully with a former circumstance to nurture growth of self and/or family. I’m thinking about how I can change or create a new reality, while still recognizing the original intent, or the aesthetic value, of the surface I am building upon. The materials in the work are covering, transforming, or further developing the original purpose of the object below; sometimes protecting an item inside or placing an object on display.
Artifacts of a Star Collision
Found Objects, Charcoal on Paper, Polymer Clay with Finish, Mylar, Wire
20” x 6” x 1.5”
2020
A study in composition and material, this work formally presents a faux-historical narrative from a neither confirmed nor denied possible cosmic event.
Pocket Constellations
Polymer Clay with Finish, Screen Print on Linen Bag
7” x 5” each
Edition of 30 with 5 APs
2020
Informed by dice rolling games, astrology, and the inherent opportunity for chance in daily life, Pocket Constellations encourages the individual to choose their own fate, and then change it if they don’t like the outcome.
Create a constellation in any location, time, or dimension and interpret through your preferred method. Find a hidden meaning, read the path of destiny, or simply enjoy a new celestial pattern.
BETWEEN SONS
SO LONG
ARTIFACTS OF A STAR COLLISION
POCKET CONSTELLATIONS
Images by Wes Maygar and Drew Austin