Work statement: My recent artwork is about metaphors we use to explore why we are alive, languages we develop to describe the shape of the universe and our place within it. My ongoing work with sock monkeys makes ‘sock monkey’ the medium through which varying genres of thought give explanation; cosmology, genetics, mythology, 4th dimensional topology, and phenomenology. My love of the sock monkey begins with its nature as a sock that is transformed materially into a cuddly representation of a monkey, which brings with it all the loaded contextual meaning of our evolutionary primate cousin. With monkey as mascot for evolution, the sock monkey becomes a natural vessel through which I translate my understanding of intangible ideas like DNA and dark energy, into very accessible forms. |