David Schnuckel

Pulse is part of a body of video work that seeks to find a place where phenomenology intersects with the fictional. Bridging an interest in wordplay with experimental craft process, this palindromic approach to material observation gives a glimpse into the life of two susceptible glass objects throbbing between endless collapse and rebound.

Cessions is a series of experimental gestures prompted by an interest in locating the parallels between human vulnerability and material vulnerabilities unique to glass and glass process. It channels the tenets of skill acquisition, technical excellence and “mastery” within contemporary craft practice and examines those things through circumstantial instances of compromise, mishap and surrender.

Artist Statement

Caught within a committed relationship to glass that is motivated by desire as it is informed through defeat, the language of technique and the rules of “doing things well” are challenged by a provocative and equally thoughtful exploration of “(un)doing things well.”

My work and research are prompted by the phenomenon of surrender, finding parallels between human vulnerability and material vulnerability unique to glass in experimental process-based projects. Mine is a making practice that navigates around ideas of control as they relate to circumstances of chance through curious explorations of erasure, negation, compromise and abandon. Mythologies of the idealistic making hand and the flawless making gesture within contemporary craft practice intersect with the realities of mishap, fault and failure that punctuate the human experience. In turn, my ideas pivot around the strengths and susceptibilities of glass in work that relies on object making, installation, drawing, photography, video and writing as various tools to help examine the curious nature of letting go.

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