2024 - For "Built Narratives" at Vesper Austin.

- Words by Marcus Clarke:

This show uses “to construct” and “to deconstruct” as verbs to explore the implications of physical and mental construction on our physical and mental environments. Through the works of Jay Jones, Thomas Cook, and Seth Daulton, we can explore how physical construction, a symbol of growth, has profound effects on our environment, communities, social inequities, and our ideas of safety and stability. These effects move from physical space to psychological, and from there, we can explore how, inside our cognitions, we are continually constructing and deconstructing. I’d like to think of my own mental maps and frameworks to be like that on a northern construction rhythm, either in a mode of rapid and intentional change or of concreteness, hunkering down for the winter. Yet, in reality, mental concreteness is never actually set, always changing by new inputs and cognitive dissonance. By interpreting and sitting with the dissonance that construction and industry have on our built environments and our psyches, we can hold well and appreciate our constantly shifting interior and exterior landscapes.