Insights & Studio Writing
Insight 18: The Exhibition Ideas I Threw Away
Before Fragile Futures became a three-zone exhibition, I had enough ideas for several exhibitions. Looking back the ideas I left behind revealed that some were wrong for the encounter, while...
Insight 18: The Exhibition Ideas I Threw Away
Before Fragile Futures became a three-zone exhibition, I had enough ideas for several exhibitions. Looking back the ideas I left behind revealed that some were wrong for the encounter, while...
Insight 17: What Makes Waste Legible?
The waste was visible throughout Fragile Futures, yet many visitors did not know what they were looking at. Watching people read the education panel and return to the artworks revealed...
Insight 17: What Makes Waste Legible?
The waste was visible throughout Fragile Futures, yet many visitors did not know what they were looking at. Watching people read the education panel and return to the artworks revealed...
Insight 16: When Artwork Reads Like Homewares
I made a lamp from 3D-printing waste that looked amazing, then stopped developing it because I believed curators would read it as homewares before considering its inquiry. The unfinished prototype...
Insight 16: When Artwork Reads Like Homewares
I made a lamp from 3D-printing waste that looked amazing, then stopped developing it because I believed curators would read it as homewares before considering its inquiry. The unfinished prototype...
Insight 15: The Label Changed the Object
A small brass nameplate can shift a sculptural object into the category of specimen before anyone reads a word. Across familiar jellyfish, unfamiliar Microplastics and an earlier Gothic experiment, the...
Insight 15: The Label Changed the Object
A small brass nameplate can shift a sculptural object into the category of specimen before anyone reads a word. Across familiar jellyfish, unfamiliar Microplastics and an earlier Gothic experiment, the...
Insight 14: The Best Feedback Gave Me No Answers
Some feedback tells me whether a work fits someone's taste. The feedback that matters most gives me pause, returns later and opens a question without telling me what to do.
Insight 14: The Best Feedback Gave Me No Answers
Some feedback tells me whether a work fits someone's taste. The feedback that matters most gives me pause, returns later and opens a question without telling me what to do.
Insight 13: When Waste Stops Looking Like Waste
Grinding my 3D-printing waste changed more than its physical form. Once placed inside a glass bowl, it stopped reading as familiar debris and became something unexpectedly beautiful—opening a larger inquiry...
Insight 13: When Waste Stops Looking Like Waste
Grinding my 3D-printing waste changed more than its physical form. Once placed inside a glass bowl, it stopped reading as familiar debris and became something unexpectedly beautiful—opening a larger inquiry...