WORK.WORK.WORK.
Resilience
Native wood, framing nails, steel
The labor materials utilized address an individual’s willingness to work despite the attempts, failures, and successes embedded in a task. The sculpture’s defined task produces no usable product, but instead focuses on an individual’s sheer willingness to engage in a laborious process. The repetitive micro moments within the structure invite the viewer to consider defined success and failure points on an equal plane. Additionally, the material contrast between the found wood — nearly 150 years old — and the modern steel framing nails offer a past and present endurance contrast. Note specifically how the found material withstands endless impacts from the modern material without collapsing. A specific fracture point is highlighted, where the modern material nearly engulfs the found material, but the material’s core is impenetrable. The sculpture’s cornerstone statement rests in the resilience duality between the force applied and the force endured.
Impossible Solutions
Found Baling Wire and Coffee Can, ash wooden plank
Residue
Black and White Prints.
Done.
Found Steel
Tattered
Canvas and Found Plow Shear
