Ordinary Objects (2021)

Praise to the mundane, to the beauty of the everyday, to what is around us.

Rilke wrote in “Ninth Elegy” (from Duino Elegies):

“Praise the world to the angel,
not the unutterable world;
you cannot astonish him with your glorious feelings;
in the universe, where he feels more sensitively,
you're just a beginner.”

I am just a beginner in the “unmutterable” world, living as I do in the material world where the mundane reigns. Try as I may to transcend attachment to the material, I live in it. There has to be something to be said about grounding oneself in the everyday, and the life contained in the mundane. I don’t have clear articulate answers. What I know is that I want to make art that has humor in it, and also finds poetry in simplicity.