Emergent Objects are a series of responses to objects and their qualities based on statements by the philosophers Heidegger and Kant. If an object’s real qualities change does that create a new sensual object? This series plays with metaphor and semiotics, where the use of language can alter our own perceptions of what is presented. These works ask the audience to question their own reality, is what we perceive visually truth, and if you read the name of the object does the truth change?
The Heidegger’s Hammers are a series of hammers that defy their name and definition through their transformation either physically or semiotically. Is a hammer still a hammer if it can no longer function as a hammer? A hammer in the toolbox requires no discussion, no thought, no theorizing, yet when the hammer is out of place, it transforms to an object of discussion, and questioning.