Yearly Archives: 2020
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Trio is a playful wooden sculpture that moves and sways in breezes and gusts. With this work, I am seeking to deepen the experience of wind as it flows through space. By heightening awareness of invisible forces there is a possibility to gain a new sense of wonderment. In a state of wonder, any embrace of the complexities of interactions and reactions that form our everyday environment becomes more available. Trio is about balance and equilibrium, as the force of the wind blows and breaks, each spire of the sculpture reciprocate modulations of the wind with action in an improvised dance. In light breezes, only the tallest spire will sway. When the wind strengthens, all three of the weighted spires begin to rustle and sway.
The work found in Partly Cloudy uses common materials, fabrics and papers in bright colours, cut and printed with graphic forms. By repeatedly doodling light-hearted graphics, they have become instinctive to me. Quick cartoonish representations of the fuzzy and elusive condense into solidified gestures of stars and clouds crisscrossing matter hanging in limbo and hopping through dark skies into the blue.
My drawings and prints of seemingly trivial graphic forms become complicated by setting them into the motions embedded in my sculptural and video works. Clouds rise and shift while fabric and paper supported by their rudimentary armatures flutter flag-like laying bare an awkward potential for flexibility and precarity.
Cloud Way, 2020, installation sketch, variable. 
Clouded Lenses, 2020, animated GIF, variable. 
Reachers (Tabletop), 2020, cut paper, variable. 
Reachers, 2020, cut paper, variable. 
Star Screen, 2020, cut paper, 28” x 28”. 
Trio: Till’ Yawn (Red) Cloud Screen (Blue) Banner (White), 2019-2020, fabric and wood, 1’ x 12’, 2’ x 4’, 2′ x 2′. 
Cloud Screen (Blue), 2019, fabric and wood, 2’ x 4’.
astedicly pleasing, 2019, digital print on paper, 24” x 12”. 
Book, 2019, digital print on paper, 24” x 12”. 
I Can(t), 2019, digital print on paper, 24” x 12”. 
Proub Proud, 2020, pen and coloured pencil on paper, 4” x 4”. 
Tall n’ Sm, 2020, pen and coloured pencil on paper, 4” x 4”. 
Clouded Lens, 2020, pen on paper, 4” x 4”. 
Rats, 2020, digital print on paper, 24” x 12”. 
Unreachable Bangle, 2020, digital print on paper, 24” x 12”. 
Flat Moon, 2020, digital print on paper, 24” x 12”.
Ben Mosher creates lighthearted drawing and sculptural works, efficiently pulling from everyday explorations and mistaken or forgotten messages. As a self diagnosed dyslexic, Ben embraces the mistakes and idiosyncrasies of their written language, so that the works examine and upset ideas of ‘simple’ and ‘stupid’.
