© N.B.Aldrich 2006
The work I create is intended as reflective, or refractive, of observations I make in the world. It is conceptually based, predicated on how an idea can be functionally put into action. I am interested in breaking apart the chain of experience; refiguring or relegating altogether the timeline or geography of events and creating new, juxtaposed experiential relationships.
Most of the material I use is gathered. I experiment with ways of recomposing or restructuring 'meaning' by reworking context, and then explore the collateral metaphors created in the process.
My method of construction is primarily non-intuitive. I try to develop formal structures that don't necessarily reflect what I want the work to be, at least on the surface, but are generated by creating systems that model the ideas important to the work. This way of working hopefully provides an intrinsic coherence between form and content.