My Own Constraint II 2015

               Center stage in My Own Constraint II is the artist embodying a character that uses performance as a tool that creates a static sculpture out of his body that engages the viewers of a public space (the “air” around him) through tension that is achieved by locking himself to the ceiling foundations of the gallery, using the built object (a cinderblock stuck in a cement base) as a pedestal.

              The character becomes a vessel of associative meaning that achieves validity either from early performance art as contextual marker or cultural awareness of bondage and imprisonment.

               The artist then is able to hide behind himself and create a tension of otherness that draws out beliefs of sculpture hidden in the viewers and draws them into question. When a viewer is engaging with the piece the artwork’s realization becomes complete - the artist himself is bounded and immobilized, and completely vulnerable to the surrounding elements that exist on the outside of himself.