(written 2011)
Indexing Oceans seems like a natural alliance of artistic tendencies.
It’s often evident in both Del’s and my own body of work that we are coursing through a similar curiosity about the nature of language and poetics spoken in the physical form. Throughout the years, when our conversations invariably turn to what has been coming from out of our practices, almost in unison, the utterances of “replica houseplants”, “ceramic pinch-pots”, “Cartesian plot–points” and similar lists of things has brought a deep connection with each other’s working thoughts about visual language.
For this collaboration, Del and I have curated, from our own studios, a collection of objects that could be at play within the field of the gallery space. Working with invented, improvisational systems of arrangement and provisional taxonomies, we pushed towards the construction of an archeology of an unsuspected parallel culture.
Indexing Oceans seems like a natural alliance of artistic tendencies; not that they are duplicates of each others, but are uniquely complimentary and compound our interest in the potential connectivity of objects and images however seemingly disparate their source.
ceramic, wood, digital prints, fabric, ABS plastic, adobe, concrete, sea shells, lacquer spray paint; 2011
