Normally an artist would take this opportunity to explain what their work means, their romanticized inspiration, a reason for making whatever it is they make. And normally, you wouldn’t read it cuz its probably a bunch of information about where they studied and what galleries, brands and collectors thought their work was cool, LIKE THIS. And normally I would write that for you because thats the game we are “supposed” to play. 

 

What I’ve learned is that the part of this process I care about most is turning ideas into things — taking a feeling, a thought, a sketch of an intuition, and pushing it into some new form that didn’t exist before. The work — whatever form it takes — is really just the alchemy of moving an idea through different stages until it becomes something in the world that someone else can encounter.

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Sometimes that alchemy looks like idea → image → shape → material → work in the world.
That’s the part of the process I define as Elliot — the translation of thought into physical form.
Paintings, sculptures, murals, installations: these are the places where ideas become objects, where the abstract becomes something you can actually stand in front of. My work here is simply to give ideas a body, and let the material finish the conversation on its own. 

 

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