artbydado

An ongoing series of narrative sculptural assemblages from recycled materials -- physical detritus put to abstract use, preservable yet appearing disposable.

I started using toss-away objects -- modern artifacts -- as my primary material for drawing because these physical containers, conduits and connectors are modern artifacts that hold to a prior functional identity that must be shed yet need not be fully let go to assimilate into a non-functional drawing -- the physical object put to abstract use.  I connect and straddle the identities of the containers, conduits and connectors by collapsing, inflating, stretching, folding and otherwise altering them into points, lines and volumes, completed by light and site position. The combinations inevitably embody male and/or female aspects.

Use of identifiable discards encourages pausing, contemplating and confronting what it means to be accounted for, present and acted upon and culpability over what often gets tossed away, physically and metaphorically.