Benjamin S. Jones - Edifice Complex

Benjamin S Jones

Cause or Effect?
The promise of utopia seems even more distant now
Surely the project isn’t lost but this design has failed us
Best laid plans bloated into orgiastic feeding frenzies
It’s a good time to be a shark

My sculptures are hyperbolic amalgams that borrow from the worlds of design, architecture, engineering and popular culture. I harvest information, images and forms from the world around us and cross-breed, conflate and reconfigure these elements; positioning them as open-ended propositions that explore the complexities of our rapidly shrinking world.
Each piece functions as a fragment of a narrative; loose and approachable yet when seen together a much more complex story emerges. Each piece begins with a central question exploring oppositions, I am drawn to images that express dualities; structure & collapse, fluid & frozen. I approach each project as a mix of question and expression. I want to seduce an audience through the physicality of the sculpture while engaging them intellectually.
Though much of my subject matter is quite serious, I try to maintain a sense of the hysterical and even the absurd. The resulting works are often as curious as they are confident and as awkward as they are proud. I explore these relationships through a kind of sculptural collage, a system in which ideas and forms collide leaving in their wake a palette of impossible hybrids.