Specializing in Special Things

Making considered, highly crafted, made-to-order objects and environments in thoughtful collaboration with our clients.

 

 A Note About Categories

 When most things I make are sculptural, why separate them into categories? 

If acts of drawing, photographing, installing, designing, fabricating, sculpting, loving, and performing intermingle to produce these things, how does one decide which set they belong to?

When two long-term projects of drawing and photography (Portraits and GULP) are each the residue of extended performances, why name them for the residue rather than the performance?

How does an installation that is used as the location for a performance differ from a large sculpture that is used by dancers in a theater?

How does fabricating a sculpture for an artist differ from designing and producing a piece of furniture or silverware for a commissioning client? 

How does making a valentine for someone I love differ from making one for someone else to give to a loved one?

Are these things containers?

If so, should they be defined by what they contain?

The answers to these questions, if there are any, exist in the realm of fuzzy logic. One set of things might have many of the qualities of the others, but there are degrees of difference.  For the sake of convenience here, they are grouped in these (somewhat arbitrary) sets. Forty years of activity produced these things; it is the making that joins them more than anything else.