Cardboard Sculpture
MERC: Mainers Recycling Cardboard
Artist statement
When I got the invite from Engine regarding this show it sparked an immediate and unmistakable flame in my creative soul. Within hours I was researching, sketching, dreaming, playing and collecting cardboard to begin creating the body of work shown here. Once I started I could not stop!
The forms I have created center on the theme of regeneration and growth. They may be very overt in the way they relate to the earth such as my Pods and Shoots which are methods of plant propagation.
Or less so with my Vessel forms: containers which may literally carry sustenance, but may also carry messages from antiquity, or dreams of a better world. It is an honor to me to take a mundane and ubiquitous material such as cardboard and mold it into forms which spark thoughts and ideas, and maybe even change.
I am a BIG proponent of recycling, reusing and reducing. My work often deals with the issue of finding value in the seemingly valueless objects of our lives. Connecting to the earth and remembering it is our home and should be revered and cared for is utterly important to me. It is not a chore to recycle, it is actually pretty fun, easy, and gives a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. It is natural in our home to generate maybe one bag of trash every couple of weeks. We recycle everything possible, and compost all vegetable waste: what I do not give to my chickens goes to either my worm farm or the outdoor compost bin.
When I got the invite from Engine regarding this show it sparked an immediate and unmistakable flame in my creative soul. Within hours I was researching, sketching, dreaming, playing and collecting cardboard to begin creating the body of work shown here. Once I started I could not stop!
The forms I have created center on the theme of regeneration and growth. They may be very overt in the way they relate to the earth such as my Pods and Shoots which are methods of plant propagation.
Or less so with my Vessel forms: containers which may literally carry sustenance, but may also carry messages from antiquity, or dreams of a better world. It is an honor to me to take a mundane and ubiquitous material such as cardboard and mold it into forms which spark thoughts and ideas, and maybe even change.
I am a BIG proponent of recycling, reusing and reducing. My work often deals with the issue of finding value in the seemingly valueless objects of our lives. Connecting to the earth and remembering it is our home and should be revered and cared for is utterly important to me. It is not a chore to recycle, it is actually pretty fun, easy, and gives a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. It is natural in our home to generate maybe one bag of trash every couple of weeks. We recycle everything possible, and compost all vegetable waste: what I do not give to my chickens goes to either my worm farm or the outdoor compost bin.
20,000 Staples Later!
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