Getting started

May 10th, 2009 | Filed in Inspiration

“Every human being is interested in two kinds of worlds: the Primary, everyday world which he knows through his senses, and a Secondary world or worlds which he not only can create in his imagination, but which he cannot stop himself creating.”
—W.H. Auden
I’ll be trying to tease out some of my ideas and my love of craft in this blog by exploring my inspirations, tools and showing my work as it progresses.
An ongoing intellectual component of my work is the concept of alterity (otherness). Our relationship to the other, both culturally and physically. The everyday aspect to my work is the craft: the act of carving, the fetishizing of the tools and materials. There’d be no way to carry through a 6 month project if the process didn’t fascinate me.

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