The Boxes is a series of small sculptures, my 3D sketchbook. This is an unusual way of making notes. I flash-freeze thoughts, ideas or intuitions into 3D assemblages; it’s a very spontaneous and unforgiving technique. 

The series in its whole is an anthology of visual poems. Each configuration showcases the most dull, futile and incongruous found objects embedded in plaster inside Polaroid film boxes. These cases then take on the role of miniature displays for a modest museum of my making in praise of the ephemeral–sparks for unexpected reminiscences. 

The choice of found objects infers directly to art history: for example, the fidget-formed chocolate wrappings allude to John Chamberlain, who often called himself the first recyclist; the accumulations of googly eyes refers to Yayoi Kusama’s obsessive collages; and, obviously the museum tags summon the ghost of art history itself. In turn, many of my other series (such as Fantastic, Silent, and 3B60) emerge from the concepts alluded to in the Boxes series.