0, Zero, Z Axis
Born and raised in Pittsburgh PA, I have always been compelled by the infrastructural and the post-industrial. In this 260+ year old city with the most bridges globally, the crisis of infrastructural decay is a pressing matter. I understand the material conditions of this place, and others like it, as a primary influence on my practice involving the gathering of fragments, translating the legibility of patina, and following the gradation of one form into others, old beliefs into new.
I am struck by the parallels between self transformation and the evolution of place. Using the body and architecture as fixed points of reference, I engage with notions of the container and its boundaries, which denote sites of transformation. My studio practice investigates this boundary as a membrane which negotiates between the subject and its setting, and the environmental fragments of that setting. This metabolic process, as I've come to understand it, carries across differences of scale - the held container, the inhabited self, and architecture as occupied space.
I am struck by the parallels between self transformation and the evolution of place. Using the body and architecture as fixed points of reference, I engage with notions of the container and its boundaries, which denote sites of transformation. My studio practice investigates this boundary as a membrane which negotiates between the subject and its setting, and the environmental fragments of that setting. This metabolic process, as I've come to understand it, carries across differences of scale - the held container, the inhabited self, and architecture as occupied space.