Paint Scraps
I collect every scrap of paint I accumulate over time. My concept with many pieces is to see the potential for the pieces that no one wants. What are the details that are beautiful, but are not enough to be a piece alone? When combined, what is do we understand about the process, the pieces, and the whole?
Broken Moments
What can acrylic paint do? This phenomenological exploration of paint comes to be after pouring and converting traditional acrylic paint into a textile. In the transfer process material is broken and brighter colors can be revealed. During a time of loss, this was a reminder that broken moments sometimes bring the brightest results.
Entropic Accumulation
This is my thesis presentation on “Entropic Accumulation” in fufillment of my M.Arch at RISD. Below is a shortened abstract:
What would occur if system flaws were epicenters for accumulation? With every layer paint, trimmed branch, and poured sidewalk, we reaffirm current systems and participate in an ever-developing palimpsest. Maintenance and care is not only a preservation of flawed systems, but also a collection of deviations. If we truly embrace these alterations, we participate in entropic accumulation. This consideration and adaptation is the care found in entropic accumulation.
Itterative
What happens to dried paint? How can one manipulate paint as it dries, alter its final form and then itterate with the result. With this piece, I intially poured paint on a flat surface, peeled off the resulting strip, warped and molded the dried paint on a canvas and then emphasized the texture with additional wet paint
