“We don’t have a specific method for working.  We decide the issue that we want to talk about and then we decide the media that is the best way to approach it.  So we’re constantly experimenting and usually working with media that we are not so familiar with and find that when we’re working without a net and working in unfamiliar territory, that’s when the interesting things happen.”

-  Pulled into “PEACES” from San Diego Videographers, produced and directed by Lisa Franek

 

For years, we have engaged in an unusual ritual by making art when dining out. It is one facet of our art that spawned our collaborative ventures.   These works capture creativity at its most playful state, resulting in surprisingly complex and impromptu sculptures borne of only the materials at hand.   Once a part of our personal and private creative moments, we recently decided to share these events by documenting them through photography, sound and video.  Each piece consists of a photograph or video documenting a work in situ, a display of select parts of the sculpture and the receipt for the meal.

These works become public art at the moment of creation, a direct response to our surroundings and materials, the character of the restaurant and the ideas that emerge and transform over the course of the meal. Since the pieces are constructed of the detritus left after a meal, they can also be seen as reflections on a disposable society.