Field Dressing
"Field Dressing" was created through non-linear emotive flow of ideas. This work, like all of my work is a free associative visual diary, directly reflecting the world and experience within it. In "Field Dressing" I focused by energy on the idea of "purging of home," primarily on a personal level but possibly transcending other human experience.
Home. Purge. Purge of home. Purge of comfort.
Process is integral to my work. I chose wood burning as my primary surface because of its familiarity ot my Michigan upbringing. I used a soon to be demolished tree/bushes and de-limbed them. I created new limbs with decorated manufactured wood scrap that I collected around multiple work sites around Seattle. I re-composed a new, manufactured landscape, now existing as live wood, dead wood, and burnt wood.
Field Dressing is the process of removing the internal organs of hunted game, and is a necessary step in preserving meat from animals harvested in the wild. Field dressing must be done as soon as possible in order to ensure rapid body heat loss, and prevent bacteria from growing on the surface of the carcass. Field dressing helps maintain the overall quality of the meat. It also makes it considerably easier for a hunter to carry larger game from the hunt area.