Studying other people’s “to do” lists allows me to trace the seemingly alchemical trajectory from intention to action. In both form and content, these humble documents of other people’s intentions to get things done move me to collect and appropriate them with an eye toward delivering them to an audience in more rarified forms.
One way I monumentalize selections from my growing collection of ephemera such as other people’s grocery and other “to do” lists is through a technique that combines drawing and printmaking processes with ceramic media. By utilizing this labor-intensive process of inlaying burnishing clay to re-present evidence of human commitments, tastes, priorities, accomplishments, and procrastinations, I hope to bring to these clues about people’s lives the kind of intensive attention often reserved for objects encountered in environments that imply their contents have cultural value, such as museums.
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