Who is CLAW
CLAW.
The work began with drawing and has expanded into painting, sculpture, found materials, constructed objects and whatever else the idea requires.
There is no fixed medium because the question usually comes before the material.
Rather than separating these forms into different practices, CLAW treats them as parts of one continuing body of work. A drawing can become an object. An object can become a sculpture. A sculpture can send the work back into drawing.
The form changes. The practice continues.
The Work
CLAW makes one-of-one physical works that function as records of an evolving mind.
Characters, words, symbols, structures and recurring forms move between pieces. Some return repeatedly. Others appear, change and disappear.
The work does not try to hide that history.
Marks remain. Earlier decisions remain visible. Materials are covered, cut, drawn over, assembled, damaged, repaired and reconsidered.
The finished object records where the process landed, including evidence of what happened along the way.
Process / Practice
Iteration is central to the studio.
A work does not always begin with a predetermined image or finished object. It can begin with a question, a line, a piece of material, an existing object or something noticed while making something else.
The work develops through interaction with it.
Draw. Look. Alter. Build. Remove. Preserve. Repeat.
Sometimes that process takes a drawing somewhere unexpected. Sometimes it transforms an ordinary material into an object that could not have been planned completely in advance.
The studio is where those changes accumulate into a physical record.