99% ORGANIC / 99% BIODEGRADABLE
/ 99% BLESSED / 100% CURSED
Material: wax, hemp rope, wooden board, red wine, baptism by fire
Come, friend, and sit beside the flame—A tale I have to stir thy soul.
No might may leap beyond the set of bounds; E'en sovereign force must bend to shape and rule.
Consider now the noble board of war, Where kings and knights contend in black and white.
No hand—be born of mortal flesh, or fire's breath— May make the knight tread straight in line, unbent.
'Tis not for lack of strength or will to strike, But that such motion breaks the sacred frame.
To move thus is to end the game itself, To unmake play and cast the board to dust.
The form is law, and law becomes the form.
So too, perchance, are higher powers chained-Not by their will, but by the gift received.
For sacrifice doth call with binding tongue, And gods must heed, though loath to move.
So tell me this, and ponder deep:Who hath more power in the end— The one who prays, or one who hears?
In his artistic practice he explores visual representation of knowledge and power, and at what point this representation begins to exist as a kind of autonomous object or turns into an abstraction and loses the boundaries of its own meanings. He is also interested in how religious symbols can be produced and used, how the sacred space can be separated from the profane one.
The formal method of his practice is largely built around working with typography and sign systems; technical images (maps, diagrams, geometric systems, etc.); as well as the creation of objects, the primary perception of which provokes their recognition as some utilitarian tools or artifacts.