Artist Statement:
Understanding the notions of craftsmanship in the 21st century involves a conceptual application of skill and a critical study of the objects. My works often result in sculpture, objects-de art and artifacts but the focus is in developing articulations through a vernacular of materiality and the semiotics of object recognition. This is a practice of investigation. It combines multiple approaches to a material understanding of craft and contemporary art and questions of the dynamics of the relationship humans have with objects in an age of changing material relationships.
Understanding the notions of craftsmanship in the 21st century involves a conceptual application of skill and a critical study of the objects. My works often result in sculpture, objects-de art and artifacts but the focus is in developing articulations through a vernacular of materiality and the semiotics of object recognition. This is a practice of investigation. It combines multiple approaches to a material understanding of craft and contemporary art and questions of the dynamics of the relationship humans have with objects in an age of changing material relationships.
JSTN CLMN is a contemporary artist and arts educator who’s focus is an interdisciplinary approach to studio practice that employs art theory, the materiality within the history of craft and their relationship to the modern modes of production and culture as a means to develop a vernacular for the understanding of everyday objects and contemporary art.
