Building Blocks
This was one of the last pieces I finished for my MFA thesis exhibition. Like the rest of the work developed for the show, this piece is my attempt to talk about and reflect on my childhood experiences. I was made to believe as a child that all this — life — was happening for some reason. That my life meant something. That there was a plan. The robot in this piece is meant as a sort of stand-in for God or, more specifically, Fate. The comic book page is here being taken apart, it’s carefully constructed two dimensional surface slowly pealed away and reshaped by this three dimensional interloper. The rigid structure and clear-cut morality of the comic book is defeated by an outside force — an unseen hand (or claw) that shapes the world according to some predefined ruleset that is inscrutable to the inhabitants of the page.