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The memory of discovering abandoned structures, and building narratives of history and once-use based on a connection to past war or possible future ruin, reflections of preoccupations with science fiction and Cold War secrecy. Architectural spaces imbued with an uncanny relationship to zones of unknowing, the imagery and ideas of science-fiction television and films, where alternative realities were conjured with plywood and models, producing worlds that allowed imagination to complete the scenario.
I work at the intersection of sculpture, drawing, writing, and installation, producing works that are fragments of a series of connected, though unstated, narratives. The sculptures and installations are scenes, stage sets, deliberately theatrical creations of interior spaces, each an interregnum in a story.
Materials are practical, quotidian, - plywood, timber, cardboard, paint, light. There is a dialogue between initial concepts and the construction of the work, with visual appeal the motor that drives the process, producing works that engage viewers on multiple levels.
The concepts underlying the works range from the historical to the weird, the sense of a world that resonates with ghosts from the future. Imagery is drawn from old science-fiction television, contemporary events, the ruins that litter cities. The interiors are rabbit holes into the realms of the strange and conspiratorial, sets from unmade films, dream spaces at the edge of nightmares