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There is a huge handmade crafting movement happening in this country right now. Far from clothespins pasted with plastic googley eyes and sweet grandmothers presiding over tables of crocheted pot-holders in churches, the new crafters are talented young creatives and they are leading nothing short of a commerce revolution.
It's a revolt against monolithic, faceless, corporate mass production. It's a revolt against items made without love, patience, and individual human idiosyncracies that make them special. It's a revolt against the outsourcing which has diminished decent paying middle class jobs in America, in favor of of lower input costs &
'The Good Life' Arts Magazine Interview
A Rochester, NY based arts and culture magazine "The Good Life," interviewed me about my work about a month ago. I scanned it somewhat poorly. But on the plus side, they called me: The String Slinger...
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Artist's Statement
My work is a broad panorama of miniatures, depicting mankind dealing with the conditions and terms of his existence, literally dwarfed by his situation. The sculptures are all part of one larger sculpture, as well as self-contained scenarios.
The scenarios attempt to calculate the result of mans inquisitive mind confronted with a mute universe. How does a population deal with simultaneously grasping for truth and meaning beneath this overarching and terrifying uncertainty? The sculptures attempt to depict poignant results of this equation: what we have made to hold on to. The umbrellas which protect from the madness of weather, but iso
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