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The urban planning strategies and the
built environment that defines a city influences my art
practice. The conceptual foundation for my work is focused on
the contemporary condition of interconnectivity found in labor,
commerce, community and the responsibility of the individual. To
explore this idea, I create site-specific installations
comprised of an architectural vocabulary. These installations
have a minimal aesthetic and are fabricated from common building
materials. My primary material references clay as a tool. In the
brick form it is a building block used to construct cities. As a
sewer pipe it provides infrastructure for the city to function.
I view it as a module that can be moved, stacked, and piled
rather than mortared together. My process is labor intensive and
repetitive. In my recent work, I loosely define my intentions
for the outcome of the installation and then allow an emergent
aspect to develop. I often call upon the community to help me
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