Artist Statement
Our work embodies the essence of opulence while being constructed of materials that typically end up in the trash. We mine popular culture searching for discarded materials that people use trying to reach their goals. Whether it is a Hollywood film that transports the viewer into a dream reality, a travel poster promising a luxurious vacation, art world ephemera, or a lottery ticket that gives the possibility of a future full of rich decadence; we use these remnants to both re-create people's dreams, and portray the dreamer.
In April of 2016 we had our wonderful daughter, whom has now become part of our practice, as everything in our personal and professional lives was already completely intertwined with one another. Holiday comes with us to the studio, on residencies, on material collections trips, you name it. While we have not made work directly about our daughter, she has a big impact on the practice. She has changed our hours, our systems, and our outlooks on the world; She has improved our purpose, our thoughts on what is worth fighting for, and most definitely improved our sense of schedule. The biggest change that our work has gone through since our daughter’s birth is that it has become more political. This is somewhat inevitable because of the year she was born, but really it is because we are paying attention to the future as we now think of the world in terms of our daughter’s future rather than just our own. We have always made work about peoples hopes and dreams, but through this new lens we have begun to make more work about issue based aspirations rather than wishes.
