everything is a hat
ongoing portrait series
Everything is a Hat is an expressionist, costume portrait series where I take random items and reappropriate them as hats. I explore automatism through "hat making" by allowing my impulses to take over in the reassembly of items that are coincidentally around me and easily accessible in the moment.
A persistent urge to create poetic absurdity fuels my process of improvisational story telling and serendipitous chaos. To me, everything is a collage, and in a world of endless possibilities and free association I am often drawn towards a haphazard aesthetic conjured into existence by stream of consciousness alteration and assemblage of items. My reliance on chance gives these reappropriated materials the value of a direct reality, that which is within reach of our hands.
By finding and fixing things, by making the old new again, I explore the tension between inheritance and impermanence.
