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My work consists of designing and fabricating functional homebrew prototype machines, handheld power tools and site-specific installation projects. Crossing the traditional disciplines of performance art, kinetic sculpture and mark-making, I develop tradeshow style displays and tool demonstrations that pare down subversive activities like burning rubber, engine revving and subwoofer thumping to a form of sub-cultural utterance.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s from a personal connection to a blue-collar lifestyle that my artwork hints towards pastime activities like customization, modification and maintenance as insightful moments of spatial production and cultural expression.<\/p>\n

I am curious to the function of this mechanical \u2018squawk\u2019 and it\u2019s connection to working-class cultural kinship. Considered by some people as \u201chyper-masculine\u201d or \u201cboy art\u201d, my work provokes discourse around ideas of class based masculine identity through the material choices and reinforcement of automotive \/ technological horseplay.<\/p>\n

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The reading(s) of the machine work and public projects I develop cannot avoid being affected by technological, political and economic change. Designing machines with the soul purpose of paring down cultural practices like burning rubber and engine revving to a quasi utility is bound to attract both negative and positive criticism.<\/p>\n

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The images I am using in the Branding Iron project are derived from a range of sources, which include popular tattoos, automotive decals, branded accessories and iron-on imagery.<\/p>\n

Riding both an iconic and nostalgic subtext, these silhouette images for the most part point toward some of the interests shared amongst blue-collar and working-class subcultures. Even though these images conjure up a \u201cdated\u201d and overshadowed approach to mechanical muscle, they still share the sense of loyalty seen in contemporary forms of horsepower pushing and customization.<\/p>\n

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