Title: Can't Hurt To Try
Medium: Video tape, magazines, plasters, kirby grips, hair gel
Installation View.

Statement:
My work is created through repetitive, time consuming methods of working; a fetishization of labor. I view such activities as a form of self-control. I am interested in this idea of the body, and its instincts, desires and obsessions, being 'disciplined' by techniques of control. These ideas are explored alongside my own personal struggle to control my work, and the chaos I create in the studio. One aspect of my work attempts to control another; new work consumes old; a constant dismantling and reassembling of meaning and order. Through an exploration of how 'meaning' is injected into one's life through personal rituals and rules; I have been considering cases of personal beliefs taking over one's life to the point of the individual becoming lost in a spectacular mess of bodily and material excess.