Artist Statement

My work references the idea of the imagined structure. I refer to historic and contemporary architecture, farm structures, and childhood playhouses. The structures that I make are far less important than the act of building through repetition. As I am neither architect nor engineer, I am more interested in creating questionable mass, structural integrity, and implied purpose.

Scratching the surface of Plexiglas using only controlled and repetitive line becomes a language of mark making- similar to embroidery or playing a minuet. They are made in quiet, and are viewed as quiet. Although the structures defy gravity and dimension, they are attempts at unbalanced organization.

Etching attempts the same control and repetition of mark making, but allows the medium to whisper a sense of irregularity, weightiness, and visual noise that the dry points do not reach.

Image courtesy Jyh-Lurn Chang