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Oversight (Undershirts)
40 x 32 x 25 inches
Laundry, dryer rack
2010
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Artist Statement
Wanting to change the world and barely changing my own sheets, I embed my lifelong struggle between big goals and small steps into my practice. With the use of the readymade, canvas, paint, and wood, I set up small jokes at my own expense. Primarily enacted through sculpture and with humor as a persistent side effect, I explore everyday human experiences of success and failure, and what it means to encounter both. I rely on the utilized object’s built-in cultural connotations and shift its original meaning by pairing and context. My work is both autobiographical and common, in that it deals with personal issues that I most surely share with a larger population. It connects with contrasting notions of responsibility & deferral, self doubt & egotism, and diligence & laziness. It's the comically sad tension that lives between these disparate ideas that makes mopping the floor sometimes feel like moving mountains.
Contact
benson.w.mark@gmail.com
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