(above) "Sonnet in Tetrameter," 2D Crit Space
(below) "Villanelle in Pentameter," Cranbrook Art Museum

 
 


        Concrete Works


"If walls could talk" 
Details (book): 
Date: 2009
Size: 18" x 18"
Materials: Concrete, expanded metal, glassware, laser cut letters
(below)


"Villanelle in Pentameter"
(Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle...) 
Details (installation): 
Date: 2009
Size: 20' x 5'
Materials: Concrete, laser cut letters, chalk

"Sonnet in Tetrameter"
(Frosts' Stopping by Woods...)
Details (installation): 
Date: 2009
Size: 7' x 4'
Materials: Concrete, laser cut letters
(left)




              (above)  "If walls could talk" 




Availability: 

Villanelle in Pentameter is available.
Sonnet in Tetrameter has been sold.

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Artist's Statement: 

These concrete works represent a line of inquiry that I am currently pursuing. This work will culminate in my MFA Thesis Exhibition at the  Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, April 18 2009. 

This series of Concrete Works are a meditation on the materiality of language and poetry. Specifically, I am exploring the role and value of formalist poetry with highly structured construction. The wall installation, "Ode to a Sonnet" is a 1-to-1 representation of Robert Frost's famous "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". The rhyme scheme is marked on the far edge of each line, the scheme letters cast into the concrete.

The form is meant to be familiar to any digital designer working in Adobe program: the long grey bars of concrete are reminiscent of the representational bars that the graphic programs create as a "preview" of the text. My construction choices in this work are a nod to my educational trajectory as I am about to graduate with a degree in Graphic Design.

It is my desire to tease out from this abstract representation of language, an earnestly poetic moment in the mind of my viewers.