Katie Phillips
I see the work not as a specific body of work but as a more fluid investigation of place and objects. It’s about the way that we organize and understand our surroundings. I use craft and other hand processes to alter found objects and bring out their inherent uniqueness. There are no mysteries in the work. The objects are just what they seem to be. A piece of tape holding a broken rock together, a stack of potatoes with their eyes poked out, these pieces are just as they seem, exactly that. There are broader themes that occur throughout the work such as coupling, the idea of a mend, the trace etc. Though there are larger themes in the work, each piece can act alone as a little phrase. At the same time, each piece adds to the one next to it, unfolding a story. I examine existing relationships in objects and then create new ones between objects. The ideas shift from more formal to conceptual, and from intuitive to more logical.