Lapidatium I-III | mixed media | 2015 -2016

Lapidatium is a collection of over 35 mixed media objects created between 2015 - 2017. This projects incorporates a wide variety of materials ranging from 3D prints, 3doodler drawings foam and discarded electric cables, zip ties and construction sites debris. A Lapidarium is a place where fragments of monuments and architecture are preserved and displayed. Often such collections are derived from the ruins –indeed the Latin word lapis means stone—of our distant history. On display are broken pediments, crumbling marble columns, and shreds of ornate façades with discarded fragments, too, but of a different material: plastic. Through three-dimensional printer’s software, I have attempted to reconstruct from own my childhood memories a collection of mediaeval landmark buildings festooned with flying buttresses, arched windows and stone vaulted ceilings, Rather than mimetic realism, though, what is of interest are the unexpected glitches and resultant “mutations” of forms. That is, the latter provide portals to half-remembered memories. As a lapidarium exists to commemorate and preserve forlorn and decaying objects (that suddenly and arbitrarily gain importance in history) my collection of discarded digital failures attempts to elevate and stabilize memory by coating seemingly formless plastic materials in insulating foam sealant and a hand drawn plastic mesh-like matrix.