Added Dec 22, 2013
In thinking about what is an object of desire, (assuming it is tangible for now), I began looking at artists who challenged what art is. The obvious is Duchamp, who in turn was one of the artists who inspired Eva Hesse. Hesse called her work absurd, non art. She stated her work and life were inexplicably entwined, her life had been absurb and so she applied that to her art, (very brief overview).
Building on the initial idea of what is an object of desire, and what is art, I began to look back to my childhood. I recall reading Louise Bourgeois saying her childhood had never lost it's magic. This is something I can relate too, I had a wonderful imagination as a child and often escaped into my own mind with fantastic stories of beautiful places. So I too began to work on a kind of non art, going back to a time when imagination was the best thing ever. I decided to make small sculptures that do not take on the shape of existing things, they are my nonsensical minuments. By attempting to allow the materials to just be, in the form of drips or expansion of foam, they can take on a life of their own. In this way I am trying to entice the viewer to relate to each piece on a personal level, to stimulate their imagination to decide what they want of it.