write now

How to conquer forgetfulness
pay attention
write things down
remember to
pay attention
write now.

ARt work descrpit

My Art and Experience

1986 – 2010

 

Illiterate literature [glass, paint, and ink]:

I fell in love with letters and words, but I didn’t really have anything to say and I didn’t want to upset anybody, so I developed an intimate relationship with lines, dots, and circles… I then called this a form of expression to make it relative to something people are familiar with, hoping perhaps they would see something of themselves in my creation and respond with and abundance of beautiful green legal tender notes… they didn’t respond as planned so, in the end, what I didn’t destroy I gave to friends and family.

2010 – 2011

What Knot: An Exploration of Entanglement

Developed: Blown glass knots.

Explanation: They say “why tangle?” I say “why not tangle on!” The passing of a knot only brings a line… I say more, stay knot successful, otherwise… you will be bored.

2011 – Present

Big Boys drive Big Wheels [glass]:

This body of work alludes to the idea of being a professional kid. Asking questions like; “what is maturity, and how can this ever be defined?” I feel as if I am maturely using a mature medium to create something completely immature. To elaborate, how can anything ever be defined? Words are relative, and can never represent anything to anyone completely alike, so what do they do for us?! They create metaphors… which translate familiar feelings and similar patterns of behavior. Becoming an adult, to me, is like trying to figure out how to get people to pay me to be passionate at enjoying myself.

I graduated from Bowling Green State University in 2010 under the instruction of Scotty Darlington with a BFA in 3-dimensmional studies. Directly after graduating in the summer of 2010 I was on staff for one session as a member of the maintenance department at Pilchuck Glass School. I then came back to Ohio and mooched off my parents until I moved to Pittsburgh, PA to be a Tech apprentice at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. I just finished my yearlong apprenticeship and will undergoing an assistantship at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA come February for four months. Until then I will be in the west with friends, developing relationships and a better understanding of the city, Seattle.

To conclude I will state:

Is art not beautiful?

Beautiful is art not

Not beautiful is art

Art is not beautiful.