What is time? It cannot be seen, heard, smelled, or touched. It eludes all our senses, yet we experience it every day. Time is ubiquitous. To most, time is just a clock on the wall. A constant cycle of 24 hours resetting and repeating over and over again in a continuous loop with seemingly no end. My art gives form to these ideas in creative ways using art, geology, and quantum mechanics physics. Each cube is a product of time I call a ‘moment’ and installed together as sculpture, constitutes an ‘event’.
Going beyond just a clock on the wall, I seek to make time, a seemingly invisible event, visible. My art, given sufficient time, will work within a dynamical system that has the same behavior over time in all the different phases of creation and through site-specific installations will create different interpretations of its meaning. Stemming from the idea that the process of creating the art is just as important as the object that is created, the viewer can not merely move their eyes over the work or simply walk around it for there to be understanding. The viewer must actively engage their own interpretation of what time really is. This way of making allows my work to be created in the present, while always being a representation of time past. Like time itself, my work and these forms have no end in sight.
Time, itself, never changes. What changes is our view on time, our perception of it, and what we do with our time. In all of my work, the cube is the constant. It is the form that represents time. While the cube has stayed the same, what has changed over the years are the installations, the amount of work which helps change those installations, and how I have chosen for time to be viewed in each installation. Over the last eight years I have also been hand pinching and forming over 286,000 tiny cubes I use to represent individual moments in time. These installations also change with the constant creating of new and weathering away of the old. Over the years, I have also had many people help create their own moment in time and then those tiny cubes are incorporated into my work. Without conversation with others, my work would not exist the way it does today. I seek to continue to find new ways to represent both geological time and time in a quantum mechanics physical way.