clean plate club is a way of life. a moral code. to those in the club, nothing is of greater importance than absorbing every nutrient given to us. no wasted food! eat your moneys worth! even more! we clean our plates because we’re hungry boys and nothing will stand in the way of our goal - not even a full tummy.

i made fresh mozzarella at work today for the first time by myself and it was so much fun. just perfect little patties. so satisfying

a few years ago i got into making random things out of concrete including three eggs with spencer and elise, once presented together but now separated, and what we like to call cement lighter. The lighter, bottom half encased in smooth, well poured quickcrete in the shape of the bottom of a tin can, couldn’t be stolen, lost, forgotten about. It was the perfect ice breaker, just enough for someone to understand what i’m about, and it’s also funny as hell. about a month ago i come across a video of a kid who did the exact same thing, his was in the shape of a cube. the person recording says “you cant steal this one”, this was the funniest part of it all. the fact that someone else had the exact same plan and ideas about it makes me so happy, i love whoever this person is. but i still felt like i had to top it, so thats when cement lighters taller, more refined ancestor, plaster lighter - cylinder, was born. i prefer the materiality and imperfectness of concrete more, but plaster is much easier to work with and provides a cleaner and more precise result. when spencer (who was there for the creation of cement lighter) saw it he told me he needed one, and thus, plaster lighter - sphere. the thought i’ve had about this series of lighters is how through simply implementing my artistic vision, i’ve permanized (not a word but it sounds really cool) something impermanent, made value out of something with so little value that people don’t feel bad stealing them or notice when they’ve put it in their pocket. you wouldn’t do that with a wedding ring. plaster of paris is dirt cheap, the material cost is not where the value comes from, but the choice that i made. and it’s made people react so strongly, my favorite being laughing and saying “duuuuuude”. a silly little worthless object that can cause people to feel such amusement is to me, what makes a good work of art. hopefully i’ll continue this series of worthless objects transformed into something that demands a reaction, creating something out of almost nothing.