This language is as unlimited in expression as life itself. Art is a behavior I am continuously engaged in. As for my future behavior, I intend to continue making art after graduation from the University of Oregon and I hope to teach at the university level. The conceptual framework for the project stems less from interest in Derrida's endless chain of signifiers and signifieds than from the linguistic model of binary oppositions that he sought to reveal through the process of deconstruction. In a nutshell, Derrida contended that definitions of what is are always made in opposition to what is not.
Definitions are therefore dependent upon an excluded and repressed binary opposite.
The role of deconstruction is to call attention to the exclusion, note the necessity of the devalued term, and thereby give value to it. The work for my terminal exhibition consists of a series of deconstructed silverware, entitled Futensils , which are variously hinged or mechanized to fail to perform their intended functions. The bottom falls out of a spoon. A knife droops rather than cuts. The tines of a fork flap ineffectually.