Objects
My role as a consumer and the personal connection that is created between consumer and object has played a major role in the creation of 3D art objects. The objects we own become us, we become them, and when we cease to be individuals because everyone owns what we have, we buy new until we become new, only to reminisce about the objects that we left behind.
Our individual historical identities and stereotypes are preserved in objects that we find in junk yards, flea markets, and thrift stores. We buy the objects, we buy ghosts. Old technology, polyester, curtains with Day-Glo patterns - these objects radiate the energy of that original consumer. We unknowingly gain the consumer ancestry of someone else that we most likely never knew, but we connect with because we share similar tastes.
Secondhand objects also provide alternatives to the norm. I relate to the nineteen sixties counterculture, which survived by clothing themselves in irrelevance. They shopped in thrift stores as a means of casting off a groupthink identity. Some of the art objects in this section are inspired by the past and exhibit my take on historic cultural norms and social stereotypes, such as 1960’s hippies and 1950’s housewives. Buying secondhand objects is also an active form of recycling. I challenge myself as a consumer and artist by trying to recycle as much as possible. Many of the art objects evolved from an ongoing conceptual pattern of work in one realm or the other, but relate by once being refuse.
The development of art objects contingent through each body of work has fueled my interest in other artist craft hobbies that further push me to reuse fabric, metal, and paper cast offs, and damaged goods from car parts to clothing.
Our individual historical identities and stereotypes are preserved in objects that we find in junk yards, flea markets, and thrift stores. We buy the objects, we buy ghosts. Old technology, polyester, curtains with Day-Glo patterns - these objects radiate the energy of that original consumer. We unknowingly gain the consumer ancestry of someone else that we most likely never knew, but we connect with because we share similar tastes.
Secondhand objects also provide alternatives to the norm. I relate to the nineteen sixties counterculture, which survived by clothing themselves in irrelevance. They shopped in thrift stores as a means of casting off a groupthink identity. Some of the art objects in this section are inspired by the past and exhibit my take on historic cultural norms and social stereotypes, such as 1960’s hippies and 1950’s housewives. Buying secondhand objects is also an active form of recycling. I challenge myself as a consumer and artist by trying to recycle as much as possible. Many of the art objects evolved from an ongoing conceptual pattern of work in one realm or the other, but relate by once being refuse.
The development of art objects contingent through each body of work has fueled my interest in other artist craft hobbies that further push me to reuse fabric, metal, and paper cast offs, and damaged goods from car parts to clothing.
