COLion Sculpture

In my main series of sculptures, titled “Quanta”, my inspiration is drawn from my interest in articulating ideas around the constructed / manufactured / engineered world including the systems and infrastructure around the making of things: assembly lines, scaffolding, construction sites, engineering design, schematics, flow charts, etc. - essentially, the processes of creating structure, from organizing space into architecture to translating data into diagrams. Whereas the manufacturing process is committed to criteria of efficiency and standardization - my process is intuitive and perhaps even frivolous. Despite my self-imposed design constraints of working with only 90 degree angles (with only the occasional 45 degree angle) and a neutral gray color, they are improvised in that they are put together in the way a painter might create an abstract impressionist image. For the "titles", to identify each piece, I use a system of a created "word" of six characters - the first three are CAPS and the last three are all lower case. Some pieces may have the same or similar first three characters, indicating they have the same "genetic code". I wish to acknowledge the financial support of the Ontario Arts Council in the making of many of these pieces.