A whimsical collection of relaxed fish moving through geometry.

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This show uses patterns and icons in an attempt to have some fun exploring materials and scale and perspective.  

Why use pattern, something prescribed to have fun?  

The use of pattern in this show establishes boundaries or rules, similar to the way a game has rules.  With the overall organization (in this case lines) set into each steel piece, I’m free to experiment with colors, washes, and patina without care because the pattern won’t shift.   This allows me to watch for new relationships, shapes, and colors in and around the overlapping patterns and icons.  I look for bits of character to emerge.

Character is what gives interest to an organizational tool like pattern.  It’s not the perfection and homogeneity that makes a pattern attractive, it’s the delight of realizing that a pattern can be made up of millions of unique moments.  

I’m not saying precision is bad or good for that matter, it has no value.  Precision is  just a way of being.  A person’s dance moves can be precise, a sculpture can be precise, math can be precise.  But without contrast, without the delicate balance of complement, precision is nothing, empty, and soulless.  Precision has nothing to do with love, the act of living, or the dreams that fuel our living.

Now apply this to the patterns of your life, aka, your habits.  If you notice life is a little hum drum within the confines of habit and pattern, flood it with color and keep your eyes open for the beauty that is just beyond the pattern.  Move through pattern and look for the fun.