Groundwork
The piece titled Groundwork began laboriously with the removal of a partially exposed silver oak root in the yard. Upon first glance, one might think the rationale for uprooting this piece of wood was due to mower obstruction or a subterranean plumbing blockage, and even sprinkler system issues, but these reasons were far removed from the obscure visual narrative which surfaced, this time in the context of a tree root, exposing my insatiable curiosity to explore an unforeseen world and revisit another aspect of self-awareness from the ground up.
As the piece evolved in construction, the concept became clearer and reaffirmed a personal observation about how the constant flux of change through experiences impact growth cycles. Whether a participant or spectator in any event, including inadvertent circumstances involving chance and coincidences, profoundly influences personal development, and becomes groundwork for something else, defining ultimately our identity.
Due to numerous life delays over the art projects’ three-year span, and a slower than normal production time-line, it became problematic, the piece may perhaps never attain the status, of ‘complete’. And yet, the prolonged process forged a new purpose, as the project became symbolically and literally a visual biography of my life.