Small Things

Clothes that don’t fit:

For as long as I can remember, I have been obsessed with clothing, fabrics, and sewing. As a little boy, I picked out my own clothes from second hand shops. I began sewing clothes as a teenager. And I use second-hand clothing in my work that has been picked out, purchased, worn and then discarded by people I have never met. For me, these items of clothing become important and valued artifacts with their own residual history and mystery and a purpose beyond their original intentioned use. Crestfallen figures are sewn, stuffed, cut apart, and recombined. Arrested in bound, codependent relationships, heaps of figures and forms are mixed-up into a fragile communities of tangled scraps and contradictions. They are forced into precarious structures where there is the potential for reconciliation, acceptance, and collapse.