Sign Constructions: 2001 - 2009
I construct my work from fragments of discarded commercial signage that I scavenge from the roadways and wastelands of suburban sprawl. The wooden signs carry the residue of accumulated experiences, traces of wear and weather. From real estate signs to closed restaurants, these pieces salvage moments in our city’s history and reimagine their language, with titles that mark the city's shifting cycles of commerce. The sign's insistent, generic language is slowed and disrupted to reveal the subtle nuances of visual and verbal form.
Later work reconsiders the sign as a carrier of failed language. Repetition, shifted grids, and horizontal bands allude to organizational structures of communication, made inept through visual stutters, meaningless acronyms, technology glitches, text codes, and verbal filler. Once designed for a public space, these new signs are reorganized into aesthetic objects as a hybrid practice of design, painting, and sculpture.
Later work reconsiders the sign as a carrier of failed language. Repetition, shifted grids, and horizontal bands allude to organizational structures of communication, made inept through visual stutters, meaningless acronyms, technology glitches, text codes, and verbal filler. Once designed for a public space, these new signs are reorganized into aesthetic objects as a hybrid practice of design, painting, and sculpture.
