99¢ Mirror

PLA, Mirror, Fiber Coating

The pieces in the 99¢ Series are created using the same methods and thought process. Over the years I’ve built up quite a collection of figurines from thrift stores and estate sales and I assemble them kind of intuitively into different formations – a sort of montage of piecing together cherubs, and animals to create a new whole. I then create 3D models of this composite using a technique called photogrammetry and reproduce the digital version using computer controlled machines, in this case a 3D printer. By applying this process of photogrammetry and shifting from physical to digital back to physical the reproduced object becomes distorted and abstracted in ways that make it more uniquely formed than the original. This process of transformation and mutation starts to create a complicated web of reflexive relationships between an object and itself that I think is really interesting. It creates a sense of placelessness, a sort of liminal psychological space where memories construct and destruct and reassemble into a new object.