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Rock cress flaunts its yellow stockings. Mourning doves sing life’s a tragedy but all afternoon the swallows peer in our windows and we laugh with our children again, watch the bread muscle its long rising. The fog moves in and the rain falls like a curtain on a play we’re still naming. If we’re lucky, this one’s about redemption.

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ANDREW HAYES. Shadow, 2019. Fabricated steel and book paper. 14 inches x 10 inches x 7.5 inches. Photo Credit: Steve Mann.

ANDREW HAYES: ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I work with book paper and steel, two materials with very di erent meanings in the context of our daily lives. The book is an object of education, growth, and escape. Steel is trickier to see and often invisible: its forms make up so many primary structures in our constructed environment. Using book paper and steel, I explore these meanings and find a curious harmony between these materials and the flexibility, history, mass, and density both possess.

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