One of the cornerstones of our particular artistic process is something we have dubbed ‘getting creative inside the box’. There exist an infinite number of ways to an express an idea. While, we may have ideas about how to express things as soon as we think up a topic, those ideas, even if we think they are original are unlikely to be more than rehashing the way in which we’ve already seen something similar expressed. Since our desire to create artworks comes from both an urge to express ourselves in original ways and a natural curiosity about those things unknown to us, we try to work with mediums discovered rather than mediums imagined, things we wouldn’t and couldn’t imagine. Starting with only a concept, and sometimes not even that we actively seek out things not currently expressing much more than “take me to the dumpster”. By discovering meaning within those forms and possibilities of discarded, unnoticed or unneeded articles we have symbiotically found a level of creativity rarely experienced even in the most unconstrained of atmospheres.

Our tree has grown in ways we could not imagine, because we have grown it from whatever we have found on the way. Some pieces look like trash to someone, but are actually treasures to the experienced eyes, who can foresee the way in which they can be upcycled into a new branches of the work.