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Artist
Statement
In an effort to reveal the human desire for contact with the natural world, my current work explores ideas for conceptual products. These products are designed to alleviate the hunger for the natural, primitive, and bestial concerning the user whom resides in the built environment.
The disconnect between humanity and our increasingly indirect understanding of the natural world is widening rapidly. As our species has progressed through factory farming, architecture, technology and the global importation of goods, we have turned ourselves from mammals in to supernatural beings. My work presupposes that there is a growing sect of the population whom yearn for community, self sufficiency, and contact with nature and would like to move away from current cultural standards of beauty and behavior.
Using the language of fashion, product, and furniture design, these works provide a solution for this very real problem, objects are fabricated in a variety of media, often utilizing a photograph paired with the prototype/sculpture as the end result. In other cases an interactive installation may be the end result. Using product design as a conceptual tool, I am implying human need to be in contact with nature rather than the distanced admiration more commonly perceived in the fine arts. Through this lens, I investigate the tension between our past and our present.
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