Work from my Bachelor of Fine Art thesis show

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The elements that are binary are all ceramic. Here I made Zoloft and Viagra spell out Confidence. My own critique is that I should have used a night stand instead of a pedestal. This was the only piece where I used the gallery's pedestal. I just couldn't get my hand on a night stand.

Detail Shot

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In this line of work, using everyday objects as text, I wrote out concepts which I have struggled to grasp in binary code. I chose binary code because of its simple yet complex characteristics. In binary code, you either have a “1” or a “0”. It’s simply one or the other. However, when put together in a sequence they can represent characters which form words used for communication. Everything input into a computer has to be filtered through binary code. I compared this to the way people think. Everything I feel is brought into me through a language that I understand. The objects I choose may or may not make sense to everyone because it is the mental connection I make when I relate difficult concepts to my tangible, physical world. The viewer may be able to draw the same connections I do, or to their own ideas. These pieces also work as hieroglyphs in that sense, giving this body of work a bilingual quality that I enjoy.