Snake Oil:

I try to tell stories with my objects.  Unequal parts lies and truths, myths and histories—so I make objects that spark a sense of narrative in the viewer.  They get to decide what is real or truthful.  By recreating specific objects, patterns, textures, I can use and tweak the original references the viewer makes to my own ends.  Objects gain power by the associations made between the maker and the user, the object and the beholder, the seller and the buyer, myself and the viewer; I craft the story that the object shares with the viewer.

I ask the viewer to consider the contents of three distinct kinds of vessels and consider just what kind of snake oil I am hocking. 

While there are some singular objects I keep repeating, it’s the groups that work best I think.  It liken it to going to an apothecary or an alchemists lab.

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