A playful longing for solidity amidst operatives of change inspires my dialog with material. Highlighting impermanence, the contingent and assembled nature of my
sculptural Installations are ephemeral and are balanced in a presentation 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 understand that tension to be a challenge, appealing for an open, rational engagement with the world, while simultaneously calling for a position that affords access to our vast inner dimensionality. I explore that tenuous relationship, through compressing various 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 of this agenda.

Benjamin DeMott