Tyson Skross
This is a world made of memory. It is at the same time gathering and dispersing. It is a composition of heres and theres. Memories are formed on a sub-atomic level by a mixture of experience, imagination, and symbolism, the real and the unreal, of truth and deception, consciousness and unconsciousness. The plants, trees and flowers, grow in this mineral mixture. Homes are made of them, livings are scratched out from them, children are born, friends die, and entire histories crystallize and dissolve. Only the bones remain, the traces.
The work in its current form is comprised of sculptural objects and painted elements in various media. Skross's process takes the models of his childhood and literally re-casts and modifies them through the addition of mineral compounds. The end result alludes to the spiritual, as well as the historical and presents itself as the extension of a living organism. The installations mimic our physical world as a construction of the combined residues of history both natural and manufactured.
"My work has been described as being about memory, fear and loss, and that is in part true. But I think that my real subject matter is the attempt to form a new way of understanding history, not as a sequential narrative leading from one point to the next, but as the residue of data and memory that accumulates to create the network within which we live our lives."