OBJECTS

This series of hand-held metal brooches melds aspects of feeling-in and pulling away. Beginning with a circle, each piece is scored and bent into various forms and sizes. They become little containers, tightly wrapped onto themselves. Empathy and abstraction are presented as contrasting ideas in the series. Hard rigid steel juxtaposes soft flexible handmade paper and thread. Slick smooth surfaces converge with ornamental patterns, organic shapes, and rusted sides. I am more and more interested in investigating how these two opposing ideas of empathy and abstraction can be connected, can become one. I want to find the common ground between what is real and what is perceived, what is pulled away and what is felt-into. This current body of work seeks a resolution between the two.

With(in) II , steel, thread, 2021, 4 x 4 x 3 inches

With(in) III , steel, thread, 2021, 2.5 x 2.5 x 2 inches

With(in) VII , steel, thread, rust, 2021, 4 x 2.5 x 3 inches

With(in) VI , steel, thread, rust, 2021, 3 x 3 x 3 inches

With(in) VIII , steel, thread, gold leaf, 2021, 4 x 3 x 2 inches

Idee Fixe 7, steel, thread, 2018, 5 x 3 x 3 inches

Idee Fixe 1-16 , steel, thread, abaca, paint, rust, gold-leaf, 2018-2019, 24 x 24 inches

Idee Fixe 5 , steel, hand-made paper, 2018, 4.5 x 4 x 3 inches

Idee Fixe 10 , steel, 2018, 4.5 x 4 x 2 inches

Idee Fixe 13 , steel, thread, 2018, 3 x 3 x 2 inches

Idee Fixe 17 , steel, 2018, 4 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches

Idee Fixe 2 , steel, 2018, 3 x 3.5 x 2 inches

Idee Fixe 9 , steel, 2018, 2 x 2 x 1 inches

Idee Fixe 4, steel, rust, 2018, 3 x 2 x1 inches

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