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Throughout my career, most of my work has been aimed at creating an environment in which the audience can interact with one another as well as with the artwork. As a means to that end, some pieces have been installations and others performances. Unlike my previous work, the "Chair Project" is not a physically interactive work. I'm making individual pieces that could become an installation. I think of it like a book of cartoons. Some cartoons are published individually, but as a group they are more exciting. Once you understand the approach of the writer, the jokes are a bit funnier. You become an insider and feel camaraderie with the author and their fans. I'm using the series approach, the way a comedian uses related jokes to build the laughter. With humor, I engage or tease the viewers into a dialog with my work and each other. I’m creating a sort of unbound, three dimensional, joke book. Every "chair puzzle" has a touch of humor by way of a pun or double entendre. Figuring out the pun is just a guessing game on the surface but it can be both amusing and frustrating to the audience. Personally, I enjoy the challenge of word games. I also enjoy the technical challenge of making an object in clay that is a visual representation of a word, phrase or syllable. Using a familiar icon (the chair) and the incongruities of the English language as a springboard, I am catapulted into exciting uncharted territories for myself as an artist. Ultimately, I'm addressing the idea of how illusive and puzzling language can be in our often clumsy attempts at everyday communication with one another. We might as well laugh about it, now and then. Connie McCreary
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