#found-objects

#found-objects

As a photographer I am interested in people, places, and things. These interests did not change with the pandemic and sequestration, but the opportunity to pursue them did. The people I was sequestered with were not all that eager to be photographed over and over again, and the places I was sequestered in tended to be private rather than public. As a photographer trying to stay photographically fit, I was obliged to rely almost exclusively on "things" as subjects - on still lifes.

"If I have to change my work halfway through, that causes huge issues. I like to know exactly what I'm doing and I like to plan ahead."

There are new mixed media sculptures in your Blue Acid show. They combine 3D elements with 2D painted planes which are almost billboard-like presentations intermixed in the work in a novel way. How do you approach such a thing? One of the great things about making art is discovering something that sprang from seemingly nowhere. In retrospect it looks logical but in the moment it's an epiphany and suddenly it's exciting to explore it.

In Kris Kuksi's "Leda and the Swan," the mythical woman sits nude and slightly less voluptuous than Rubens and Cézanne's versions of her. In this mixed-media assemblage, the mother of Helen of Troy is surrounded by cities that literally rise above her and more that are flipped upside down. Train tracks crumble. Armies go to battle. Severed heads hang from the trees that loom over the scenes.