Travis Childers
Virginia
Artist Statement Submitted 2014
Like a lot of artists today, I use everyday materials as the starting point for my work. I enjoy the challenge of transforming something commonplace into a new object, keeping in mind the original purpose of the material when giving it new meaning. Although the materials I use are ordinary, I still think they can make interesting statements about the world around us and human nature. With the new objects, I try to invoke a response by playing with scale and repetition, as well as with feelings of repulsion, intimacy, and sometimes preciousness.I work mostly in sculpture and collage. Some of the unifying factors running through all my work is process and accumulation. With both ways of working I reference our relationship with nature, each other, and memory using office supplies with my sculpture and images from newspaper and tape with my collages.
