VERDUROUS COMPANIONS
False Would. 2012
Collage, vinyl, wire, and plaster.
Collage, vinyl, wire, and plaster.
Marble Palm. 2012
Collage, vinyl, wire, plaster and various hard wood.
Collage, vinyl, wire, plaster and various hard wood.
Midnight Denim. 2013
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Tie Die. 2012
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me. 2013
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Charlotte. 2012
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Southern Comfort. 2013
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Due South. 2013
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Just Golden. 2013
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
Collage, duct tape, wire, and plaster.
The Neon was Purpling the Horizon Above the Highway. 2013
Collage, vinyl, wire, and plaster.
Collage, vinyl, wire, and plaster.
Dream On. 2013
Plastic gift paper, packing tape, wire, plaster.
Plastic gift paper, packing tape, wire, plaster.
Felt. 2012
Collage, adhesive felt, hard wood, wire, plaster.
Collage, adhesive felt, hard wood, wire, plaster.
Mountain Veneer. 2012
Collage, vinyl, wire, plaster.
Collage, vinyl, wire, plaster.
Fake plants strike me as absurd. They are a product designed for people who lack the commitment to care for real plants, but who also want their spaces to be decorated by that which appears to be living.
My plant sculptures mimic fake plants, who themselves are pretending to be live plants. My sculptures struggle to understand their identity, they are unsure of their purpose.
During the extensive time spent carefully crafting these stymied objects, I have accumulated many questions for them. How unfulfilled they must feel, sitting forever static and endlessly indoors. As silent, involuntary observers to the monotonous banality that exists around them, their own ‘leaves’ relentlessly taunt them with depictions of their alive counterparts in the out-door places they will never have the opportunity to inhabit.
Indoor plants are a suggestion of nature you can enjoy without leaving the comfort of your own home, office or lobby. Imitations of artificial indoor plants are confused and confusing.
My plant sculptures mimic fake plants, who themselves are pretending to be live plants. My sculptures struggle to understand their identity, they are unsure of their purpose.
During the extensive time spent carefully crafting these stymied objects, I have accumulated many questions for them. How unfulfilled they must feel, sitting forever static and endlessly indoors. As silent, involuntary observers to the monotonous banality that exists around them, their own ‘leaves’ relentlessly taunt them with depictions of their alive counterparts in the out-door places they will never have the opportunity to inhabit.
Indoor plants are a suggestion of nature you can enjoy without leaving the comfort of your own home, office or lobby. Imitations of artificial indoor plants are confused and confusing.
