detail of "Pierre Van Passen interviews Buenaventura Durruti, Aragon, Spain, 1936"
3-color screenprint on kraft paper, 2008
artist statement
I am a printmaker who thinks about buildings all the time — an architect who is more interested in kitchens than in skyscrapers — a designer who is into cutting rubylith, drafting with a parallel rule, and hand-coding html. I seek to exist somewhere in the borderland between perfect right angles and cheap 2x4s, between self-determination and cooperative communities, between collaborative doodles and meticulously cut stencils. It doesn't get done on time, it's more complicated than it looked like at first, there are no easy answers — I like it that way.
The drawings and prints I am showing at AS220 pull together construction details, the proportion and dimensions of space, the logistics of collaboration, the detritus of everyday life, what is left over after destruction, and more: a messy pile of evidence gathered in my investigations into how buildings and cities shape our lives, and how we can shape them to fit how we want to live.
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