Public Broadcasting

Abstract

"Broadcasting. Information sent through the atmosphere, to be picked up elsewhere. Targeted messages radiating out and surrounding us. Upon reception, metal within a radio oscillates molecularly in response to this emission. Attunement. The ceramic figurines populating our made worlds operate much like a broadcast. These items are laden with meaning, explicit or implicit, and this web of stuff humans have woven can be thought of as wave, energy. Transmission. Radio frequencies buzz around unnoticed, until they are. Objects sit within our spaces, unseen, until they are. A message sent out, not just as energy, but as mass; figurine, column capital, happy meal toy, bumper sticker, all these contain. I explore our connection to these idea-things through large scale figures modeled off ceramic figurines sourced from second-hand stores which through their translation of scale, provoke questions that may not often be demanded by these diminutive often mawkish characters."