Welcome
2.1.2013
Please take a look around my growing website. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, ideas, or are interested in anything you see.
In the coming weeks I will be adding more content, as well as links to my new Etsy store.
Thanks for visiting my site!
-matt
Please take a look around my growing website. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, ideas, or are interested in anything you see.
In the coming weeks I will be adding more content, as well as links to my new Etsy store.
Thanks for visiting my site!
-matt
About me
I am an artist from southeastern Pennsylvania. I primarily work in wood, light, and ceramic.
4.10.12
By reinventing domestic fixtures that do not need to be reinvented, I try to create new objects that solve specific, classic problems; such as ‘lamp,’ ‘flower pot’ or ‘plate,’ and incorporate what I have seen with what I would like to see. The overall design and purpose is influenced by mass-produced or factory made objects that occupy our daily lives, as well as a desire on my part to simplify and reveal the otherwise unconsidered. There is an eccentricity and a deliberation that is required in my process that allows me to look at or imagine a factory-made, ubiquitous item and transfer its likeness and abilities into wood, ceramic, or any other industrially manufactured raw material. By appropriating existing solutions such as the articulating lamp, I become intimate with the object in all aspects of its form, function, and mechanics. This is a Zen-like, maker-centered method of creating, which is translated via the final product by slowing down the experience of the object, causing it to be recognized in a new light.
4.10.12
By reinventing domestic fixtures that do not need to be reinvented, I try to create new objects that solve specific, classic problems; such as ‘lamp,’ ‘flower pot’ or ‘plate,’ and incorporate what I have seen with what I would like to see. The overall design and purpose is influenced by mass-produced or factory made objects that occupy our daily lives, as well as a desire on my part to simplify and reveal the otherwise unconsidered. There is an eccentricity and a deliberation that is required in my process that allows me to look at or imagine a factory-made, ubiquitous item and transfer its likeness and abilities into wood, ceramic, or any other industrially manufactured raw material. By appropriating existing solutions such as the articulating lamp, I become intimate with the object in all aspects of its form, function, and mechanics. This is a Zen-like, maker-centered method of creating, which is translated via the final product by slowing down the experience of the object, causing it to be recognized in a new light.
