Selections from the Bricolage Studies Series, 2020-2021

These works began with my participation in an online group of artists sharing work with one another during the COVID pandemic. We shared current work once a week as a sort of studio check-in. From these weekly posts came conversations with a variety of artists from around the U.S. 

For this project, I began a weekly series of temporary bricolage assemblages, which I would build, document photographically, then disassemble. With no one around to witness these constructions in person, the evidence of their existence was only shared via digital image. Of course, everyone involved was in the same situation; none of the art objects being created by these artists were being seen in person, at least not by the group. I embraced the virtual nature of these interactions, allowing these studies to exist for a short time in physical form, then remain only in the form of photographic documentation. 

Eventually, printed versions of images from this series were created. These prints were on view at the 2021 Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile at
H&R Block Artspace, July 23 – October 14, 2021.