Carolyn Salas & Adam Parker Smith
Trophy is a collaborative projec by artists Carolyn Salas and Adam Parker Smith. Serving as proof of merit in a society of bizarre values, Trophy sports a three-hundred poin hand-made resin rack.
Carolyn Salas‘ work consists of sculptures and installations influenced by day-to-day experiences, relationships and the increasingly charged sociopolitical climate we reside in. Sala‘ choice of materials is driven by concept and by this method she works with a wide array of materials including found objects and craft oriented assemblages of felt and fabric. In a culture obsessed with mass production and disposables, her work is a conduit of the antithesis to this standard with its laborious craft and handmade aesthetic. Reflecting on the contemporary diffusion of culture and its transparent nature, Salas looks at the work as a self-exploration of the subconscious , where she tries to physically create a state of mind.
Adam Park Smith contructs the aftermath of invented ceremonies and trancendental experiences from materials mined from vernacular culture, hardware stores and inherited collections of fabrics. Smith mimics the human endeavor to understand the universe through a bizarre confluence of real events, daydreams and preexisting fables. Through this combination, he established psychological sites for disparate elements to congregate in environments that are simultaneously haunting familiar and alien.