BA, Art (Studio Arts – Creative Technologies)
Certificate in Adult/University-Level TESOL
wallenfang777@gmail.com
Artist Statement
I don’t want to make anything useless…
● The wooden stand made from pine holds a two-foot square of drywall.
● It comes apart with dowels and can be fixed easily.
● I am asking the participant, you, to pick up a hammer and break a hole in the drywall.
● Don’t go crazy.
● When you are finished, I kindly ask you to patch the hole with the trowel and compound on the table.
● Do your best. If the hole is too big, you can use the other tools and cut a piece of drywall or wood to fix it.
● I can show you how.
This project is a reflection on the commodification of art and labor, development and maintenance. It questions the value we place on both and challenges the traditional hierarchies of the art world and the industrialized American workforce. By offering my services as a worker and artist, and bringing craft into the Fine Art setting, I aim to subvert these hierarchies and highlight the interconnectedness of these roles, and how we can teach one another things while we have fun, after all, we are perpetually encased in this exact material our whole lives.
● The wood will be repurposed (diploma frame), screws reused, and the drywall cut up for patches.
