Rulers take us from the unknown to the known. By calculating and measuring, they inform our realities and help us to connect and make sense of the world around us. Unlike a traditional ruler with numbers and tick marks, my rulers guide visual perception and journeys that contrast a circle and a square and explore all the possibilities within these two shapes. Within this system, order and balance wrestle with visual rhymes and perceptive illusions.

 

The rulers evolved out of an examination into my stone sculpting practice. The constant discovery is an exciting part of the process, controlling light and shadow to curate new spatial compositions and expressive characters and imaginable worlds to slip into. Like driving past a cornfield and watching the depth shift at a rapid pace and falling into a hypnotic spell. Yet, I desired to distill this into a set of very tight parameters for evolving my work.