As an artist, I have adopted the cinematographic device of framing: placing the audience in the scene while presenting a point of view that is of my own invention. However, as a sculptor I work in three-dimensional space, opposed to the flatness and illusion of film space. Through the fabrication of objects, I strip away extraneous information to reveal the structure in design. My aspiration is to make alluring objects that give rise to the perplexity housed in their fabrication and referential status. The execution of the work is realized through a handling of materials that is precise and meticulous. Economy of material summons for me a value in the physical labor of making. In the vocabulary of craft, my mark is the conscious removal of it. The effect perhaps could be described as a calling forth of the beautiful. I recognize beauty generated from a position of skill that nurtures an atmosphere and idea of memory, place-story. A refined tension invites the viewer to transcend the factual condition of my installation, and moves into the junction between time, space, and thought.

Mahlon Huston