Chad Anderson
Jawbreaker May 2001-January 2002

My interest in the ephemeral experience led me to use unstable materials and to create situations that were temporal in nature. Documentation of the process or event became a mechanism to relate or hold the memory of those experiences. Intrigued by the subjective nature of photography I began to create sculptures that worked with perceptions of process and time. I came to believe that by placing an object in the right context, a simulation could give just as authentic experience as reality. At Mills I began to make sculptures that last more than a moment but attempt to represent time. Motivated by my desire to manipulate perception, I began creating work that could illustrate visible process and time-shifting content.