08/16/2026
What you see here is the culmination of many years of subconscious and conscious toiling. For myself the subconscious parts began 14 years ago and unravelled over the following years with a heavy focus over the last two years.
Laine Groeneweg and I started talking about this over 18 months ago and although I can’t speak directly to his process, I know he considers and creates with incredible intention and with decades of practice in tow.
My parts of this really started with visions and photographing dolls that my wife and then my kids played with as kids, stacking soooo much butter in 100’s of ways and shooting it before it melts, harassing my people for chicken feathers from their coup in Berkeley, burning many fires to photograph charcoal and smoke with elaborate lighting sets setup to shoot a single gold chain halo; and that’s just for parts of my final pieces. All over a week of photography Rocklands Market. And all this before we began putting things together Smokestack which was a whole other layer and level of creating. None of it was work.
I say all this to say that the simple things we see all the time often are so deeply considered and toiled over to make them so simple. Constantly constructing and deconstructing the thing until you’re able to distill it to its most potent essence, curated judiciously before it leaves the artist’s world.
The first slide is a piece called Feed The Beast that is a tru collab between the most compelling elements of both Laine and my pieces for the Precious Metals Exhibit. It truly crystallizes all of the things that this show is about. We love it.
The Precious Metals Exhibit has been extended by another week, till August 21st Smokestack in Hamilton.
Love Only Beyond This Point.
