I like making thoughts real. Ideas struggle while moving through the head machine. Sometimes they come out as physical or non physical objects. They become new ideas. Sometimes I understand something better after seeing it made. Or maybe not better, just from another angle or seen through a different pair of binoculars.

I like thinking about how people make systems and statistics and boxes for similar looking things. It’s funny how convincing those boxes can be.

I like people and how we wander in and out of each others lives. We’re moving in patterns and following trails. We are animals too.

Substance of Life: A retrospective Curated by Sigrid Espelien (detail), dimensions Variable, wood, ceramics, plaster, mirror, glass, bees wax, drawing, photo, May 2012, Photo: Zachariah Szabo

The Conversational French Fry Holder, Ceramics, french fries, ketchup, performance, Dimensions variable, September 2010

Portable Isolation, September 2011

For more information on each project see www.sigridespelien.com