Excavation
Excavation is when the ground is disturbed.
Layers blur into one another; complexity bleeds through; everything slowly becomes something else. Covered and recovered. Buried and unearthed. Some items lost, some found, all affected. The artifact is what bears the mark, what was already, but not yet. It is what remains.
My work is concerned with process and artifact. This process of accumulation, layering, and unearthing begins with the gathering of ephemera, curated on to individual surfaces. Layer upon layer of material builds up into an excavation site to be rummaged through, wrestled with, and acted upon. I engage these sites with tools that disturb the ground, that leave a mark, that give and take, push and pul l. I grind, sand, chisel, chip, dril l, and cut into surface upon surface.
All residue.
Unresolved, still shaking dust.
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