CAMERON HOCKENSON



My site-specific projects respond to place, inhabited, negotiated and navigated through gestures of walking and way-marking. Paths, cairns, towers, gateways, and shelters tenuously balanced against the transience of nature evoke material and spatial patterns in the landscape.

Installations subvert pre-packaged identity. I examine the commodification of culture where mass-production defines self-expression. I find more use in wasted cardboard boxes and shipping palettes than in the products they contain. Working from a discarded kit of parts, I salvage a personal voice from marketed objects that insist we become consumers of our own lives.

Documentation of work becomes an archive of flattened sculpture and paper architecture. In the role of an archaeologist, I reconstruct the past, present, and future. My projects are never ends in themselves, rather generations of a discursive journey.