Rainbow Through a Mist of Rust [Geography of Dreams, Stanford Virtual Coulter Gallery, June 2020]
Growing up in Cincinnati, the materials of buildings (brick walls, concrete, steel rods, and sheeting) are always present, primarily in the demolition sites of old buildings and factories. Rusted steel rebar jutting out of a pile of crumbled bricks and concrete is an image repeated many times. These materials, along with the idea of rust, are discarded by many, not given a second glance. They represent a history of the Midwest known as the Rust Belt. My sculpture series, Rainbow Through a Mist of Rust,  is made from the industrial materials of steel panels, steel tubing, rust, bricks, coal, and found driveshafts. The weight of the materials is not evident in the digital rendering of the sculptures, creating an image removed from the physical reality of steel. Time is a Distance (Spinning) suspends heavily rusted driveshafts to lean in space towards the viewer. Rust, whether natural or human-made, is a marker of time. My sculptures are also a marker, of the manufacturing industry that has left. My sculptures physically represent what remains, and symbolically allude to the populations of people who left. The Harvest of a Cornfield is a construction of steel tubing, oriented like a suspension bridge crossing one of the many rivers in the Midwest. Subtle ideas of labor are present in my work, through time and physically consuming processes such as welding. Labor is also placed on the viewers, as my works block, reach into, and exist in space.
    Digitally rendered steel, coal, brick. Dimensions variable.

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