My sculpture is my way of exploring and learning about forms and their evolution.
I am attracted to basic forms which, by self replicating, gathering or joining other forms create more complex objects. Simple forms impress me. A form jumps at me, calls for me to explore it, to know it better, to internalize and appropriate it, and in doing so to learn about the material and environment and the process of becoming this form.
My sculptures become a variation for those forms to take – a variation that is not limited by its original environment but is shaped by different environmental factors, of which I am one. The forms I select to reproduce actually replicate through me, my sculptures seem abstract, even though they represent actual forms in the world.
One form I love seeing is the zigzag. I find it in nature and in human culture. It can be found in saws, knives, even Stone Age serrated tools; in architecture and artefacts across cultures; on walls, functional or ornamental; crowns; edges of some plastic bags; some pastries; gears and zippers. Zigzags can be found on fish, crocodiles, a chicken’s comb, teeth, leaves, fruits, thorns, flowers, sand dunes and mountains...
The form appears whenever necessity calls for it or whenever it is economically effective. Evolution sometimes comes up with the same solution even in very different environments and using very different processes and materials. This keeps me excited.
I am attracted to basic forms which, by self replicating, gathering or joining other forms create more complex objects. Simple forms impress me. A form jumps at me, calls for me to explore it, to know it better, to internalize and appropriate it, and in doing so to learn about the material and environment and the process of becoming this form.
My sculptures become a variation for those forms to take – a variation that is not limited by its original environment but is shaped by different environmental factors, of which I am one. The forms I select to reproduce actually replicate through me, my sculptures seem abstract, even though they represent actual forms in the world.
One form I love seeing is the zigzag. I find it in nature and in human culture. It can be found in saws, knives, even Stone Age serrated tools; in architecture and artefacts across cultures; on walls, functional or ornamental; crowns; edges of some plastic bags; some pastries; gears and zippers. Zigzags can be found on fish, crocodiles, a chicken’s comb, teeth, leaves, fruits, thorns, flowers, sand dunes and mountains...
The form appears whenever necessity calls for it or whenever it is economically effective. Evolution sometimes comes up with the same solution even in very different environments and using very different processes and materials. This keeps me excited.
In my sculpture series: “Arabia Petraea Felix”, sculptures I have made reproducing elements of ancient sculptures and architecture from ancient Jordan all the way to ancient Yemen, when geometrical abstraction was prominent.
As I question and learn, I hope my sculptures invite others to explore and notice similar forms around: what does this Untitled sculpture look like? Where can you see the same form? What can you learn?
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