Ruler
Melted acrylic sheet, various plastic measuring devices & Acribond glue.
A measurable extent presents the possibility for creation. The process of collecting data brings a great deal of excitement to someone who knows what to do with it. One of the most thrilling parts of producing work is beginning with only the makings of an idea. The moment the ball has just started to roll, and momentum as builds you enter the open-ended preliminary stages of your fresh new project.
A time when racing thoughts are scribbled, all sketches are on napkins and the key dimensions, that will go on to be the essential foundation of your work are just being measured up and taken down.
With these thoughts in mind, Ruler is a work about the mapping of an unformed idea and the endless trajectories that it may set out on. Artists rarely tend to stick to the straight edge that the ruler offers. The line is much more likely to skew along the way, and it’s often better that is does.