a Statement that tells:
The idea is central. The idea is what's shared, by the works and by those who encounter the works.
The execution follows the idea. Each project is an experiment. Themes recur, but the idea behind each work is different, and therefore the execution of each work is completely different. The work is often iterative, as new ideas emerge from different showing contexts, or different facets of the idea are brought out.
A way to categorise the results is that of Monologue, Thing, or System, although the terms are slippery and many works exist across or between them-
-the Monologues employ devices such as list or narrative to deliver natural, ruminatory and intimate reflections, attempting to understand what it means to be and to relate.
-the Things carry deceptively gimmicky qualities designed to enter the mind quickly and stay there indefinitely, in a bid to recur later, to differently inform and differently define the viewers experience of the world.
-the Systems employ the process of the practice as a whole within their own bounds, with smaller 'works' being created under a wider set of conditions that form the package for The Work.
Certain themes the artist points to across his works are moments, systems, information, relation, choice(s) and significance.
The research is an attitude. It is a relentless, wide-ranging, receptive process and encompasses every subject, thing or relationship the artist finds interesting, finds surprising, cares about, and cares for.
The pieces often rely on the viewer to be curious and inquisitive- much like the artist was when creating them.
The hope is that what he delivers can work with the audience to make space and time for contemplation, to make connections, relationships and understandings between things, and to make difference in what is often an overwhelmingly indifferent world.