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. ”