Archaeology

I find myself returning to ideas, as I disassemble sculptures and reassemble and reinvent them here far away from the place where they were envisioned. After making three ocean crossings, I let the work morph into something slightly different. I recombine them with new elements, textures, metaphors. I snapped them apart in a garden in Switzerland, then squish them into tile grout upon a card table in Manhattan. One month of weekends were spent free diving in Hawaii so to collect these contemporary artifacts. They were alive then, being claimed back by the sea in a hundred year process. Young coral polyps, sponges and veils of plant life disguised them. I stole them from the seabed to study them, so change their context and reveal where lives collide.