Zevin Delaski

I play with common objects in uncommon ways. There is a distinct pleasure that comes with reorganizing the mundane items that exist at the peripheries of our society. Embedded within my work, there is a sense of hesitation and contemplation surrounding manufactured and personal narratives of the human consumption of goods. Culminations of our habitats breathe, grin, and shiver, delightfully reinventing how the consumer object moves through our daily lives. I want to show the initial framework, how the object/material resides in its common place, and then how it begins to define a life of its own in a space directly parallel to its societal one. Electrical cords, outlets, storage containers, dripping water, and light are used to reinforce ideas of connectivity, fragility, and the life cycle. My sculptures reorder these common building materials, taking them out of their systems and contexts and into routines made strange— an uncanny adjustment of their efficiency and value. Intertwined in a cycle of breaking and fixing, the momentum of our everyday stuff becomes a relational form. The crumbs hidden in the cracks, the stove left on, the scratches on the wall, the imprints in a shag carpet, a smiling outlet, a whispering vent, tears of a faucet, the cough of an engine.