These works use broad palette of materials and processes centered on themes of the human body combined with machine components and aesthetics. Materials such as wood, steel, electronics, plastics and hardware are used to make sculptures and installations that are sometimes kinetically mimetic of the involuntary actions of the body. I use digitally manipulated x-rays and hand drawn anatomy combined with CAD machine drawings to make imagery that alludes to a cyborgian future. I’m interested in the relationship between the fragile vulnerability of human flesh, muscle and bone, and the engineered precision of a well-built machine. Drawing on notions of technology as an extension or prosthetic to our own bodies highlights our relational necessity to incorporate machines into our daily lives while tech evolution substitutes animal or man for machine and efficacy. The tension and tangled interrelated lives between organic life and its technological counterpart ask what is the human condition in a post-human society?
These works are from 2005-2010