I am a contemporary sculptor. I make pictures. I am a post-internet artist, meaning that my work relates to the internet and the culture that has fostered on it. I use textiles and concrete, video and sound. I am omnivorous in material and egalitarian in decisions; I do not command my art to be something, we decide what it will be together.

Objects and their relations fascinate me. Taking two seemingly unrelated objects and finding their similarities, the little moments that concrete is a traffic drum for example, I find that’s where there is something interesting to look at. Art lives in the theatrics of objects.

Objects are actors, and they usually act as themselves. A traffic drum is a traffic drum, obviously. But when the traffic drum is a frog, that is exciting theatrics. Literal objects used in nonliteral ways capture a sense of the object not commonly considered, a hidden side of it. This is the most primal and brutal form of art making, allowing these hidden qualities of objects to become seen. I believe in art as an appreciation of the unseen.

Contemporary sculpture is theatrical, it is a playground of nonliteral objects exploring their unconsidered qualities. I enjoy making in this mode particularly because it is unabashedly cringe. To make sculpture, you have to make something that is full of extreme language, every instance of the object must mean something. Leaving an object without nonliteral exploration is simply placing it there, and then it becomes decoration.

However, objects are big. Objects are heavy and they take up space. Installations can take up entire buildings if you let them. Some installations can’t stay alive forever. We take pictures to combat this, we make pictures to make sure we remember these things. These pictures, flat sheets or pixels on a screen (still flat), are not the literal object, but they have qualities of that object. Non Literally, they are the same. Everything becomes pictures.