Pocosin Residency!

I find it hard to believe, but it's simply true! Its almost been 3 months now since my arrival in Columbia, NC! It has been an exciting and adventurous journey so far, especially getting acquainted with the local area and people. Pocosin Arts has had no shortage of things for me to do, everything from pulling weeds to database entry, event photography, building repairs, etc! No matter what the task, they can count on me!

It is also amazing watching how my own personal perspective as well as the physical work itself is changing and evolving around the local environments. These exciting changes are also the result of working along side Marlene True who's superb craft and inventive ideas translate into a powerful source of motivation.

 

 

Left: Marlene True, Center: Feather Phillips, Right: me

The GateKeeper Vs The Masquerade

The human body has been utilized in these works as a mode of exploring science fiction and personal myth. I create armors and masks that often adorn as well as obscure one’s true identity. In today’s high‐tech era, these physical metal objects relate to the creation of a digital face as seen in Facebook and other social networking media. Masks and armors are used in my work to fabricate and re‐engineer personal identity.  Industrial materials such as copper, brass, steel, and aluminum are utilized as physical adornment in addition to electrical components. By dawning the mask along with a persona, it becomes possible to indirectly provoke discomfort from the lack of true information about oneself. As the kinetic sculptor and jewelry artist Ira Sherman asks, “Are people recognizing the moral consequences of their technological achievements?”

Thank you Elaine Bezold for the excellent Photography! 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

Pop Performance and Penland School of Crafts

 

 

 

 

 

A Bit of Collage in Between!

While I mostly work in Found object assemblage, metals, etc, I have been more recently experimenting with a bit of Collage for fun.

 

  

 

Pocosin Artist in Residence

Today was a spectacular day as I found out that I have been selected for the Pocosin Artist in Residency program in Eastern North Carolina! It is a great honor to have such an opportunity and I am excited to work with as well as learn from the Pocosin Arts Folk School!



The Pocosin POCOSIN ARTS FOLK SCHOOL from Minnow Media on Vimeo.

Columbia, NC, Home of POCOSIN ARTS FOLK SCHOOL from Minnow Media on Vimeo.

Pocosin Arts Folk School CABIN FEVER RELIEVER from Minnow Media on Vimeo.

Pocosin Arts Folk School ARTS in EDUCATION from Minnow Media on Vimeo.