Artist Statement: 

Busy hands. Referencing classical sculpture, these cardboard busts were an exercise — a fusion of my work and my interests. I love classical sculpture, Greek and Roman mythology and all things Mythic. They are, in a sense, a precursor to objects that I later constructed from lumber, and a sort of hold-over of the obsessive pattern-painting that kept me busy for a number of years. These 2 sculptures reference a bust of Julius Caesar, and the portrait bust of a Flavian woman.  

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These were Experimental objects, meant to honor history and reflect on how we feel the need to update and reintroduce classical forms to the vocabulary of art. 

It also forces me to ask the question: Is the appropriation of classical forms a cheap trick to fool you into ascribing a heightened intellectual value to these objects? To coerce you into thinking that these objects are somehow something more than just 100+ hours of tangential paper mache and cardboard playtime?  

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