Max Lester

It Takes 3

Sculpture
2020
Cement All®, Proflex dryer duct, deflated bike tire, unidentified metal brackets, flexible metal conduct, canvas work glove
A cement-filled-duct object is held up by two unidentified brackets and a tire. Each component relies on the other two for the object to stand on its own. To find this balance, this work requires three sets of hands to assemble.

“ It Takes 3 is an exercise in support and intention. This work contains materials and objects that make up the ordinary spaces we frequent. In foregrounding mundane objects and materials, this work imagines alternative realities of familiar spaces. It is not a recontextualization of these elements but rather, an extraction of existing intensities from these objects that might be overlooked by abstracting and reorganizing. The materials together become abstracted while new objects emerge: a crib, a walker, a dog, ect. ”

Share with someone

It Takes 3
It Takes 3
It Takes 3
It Takes 3
It Takes 3
It Takes 3
divider
2021, Behind These Strange Sensation are Hidden Structures
InterAccess
2020, Modes of Inhabiting
Beaver Hall
2020, Integrated Media Faculty Award
Integrated Media Faculty
2020, InterAccess Media Arts Award & Prize
InterAccess

Work by

Max Lester

Sculpture, Media, & Installation

“Tending to that which is sticky, jarring, and hidden in plain sight.”