A playful longing for solidity amidst operatives of change inspires my dialogue with material. Highlighting impermanence, the contingent, assembled nature of my sculpture and installations are ephemeral and assume a position that questions the solidity of their presence. Volumes of fragile ceramic line are ardently bound to one another with various household fix it material. These combines are worked to a position where the visceral qualities of pending change are exemplified. My intent is to afford the audience a confrontation, a friction between wonder, awe and the trepidation felt by the prospects of uncertainty. I explore that tension, through compressing representations of familiarity and preciousness, with agents of change, entropy, and material phenomena. The motive of my work is to question our relationship with impermanence. To be a companion and embrace what uncertainty offers is at the heart my agenda.

Benjamin DeMott