Paralogical Zoo operates at the intersection of three domains: consumer production, animal representation and language generation. The art object results from the amalgam of elements proper to these schemes or modes of operation. Elements deemed natural or artificial but inscribed in a flat ontology that does not oppose them. The works delineate a liminal space in which reasoning operates alongside, but not within, the strict confines of formal logic. It is a logic of the messy in between, the contingent and paradoxical relationships that constitute actual experience. While the compositions operate within the minimum requirement for the production of metaphor, the use of generic and commonplace objects questions the primacy of the human subject and its use of art as a means of self-expression. Deliberately employing objects that lack the aura of uniqueness or artistic pedigree, the series dismantles the hierarchal structures that privilege human authorship. A plastic bottle, a discarded tire, or a common houseplant, when placed in conjunction with an animal form and a linguistic fragment, generates a meaning that is not authored but discovered – an emergent property of the encounter itself. The act of creation that arises from the intersection of non proprietary elements parallels the use of language conceived as a collective repository of objects. Meaning is co-authored in an inter-objective process making the linguistic component in these works, not a caption or an explanation but an equal partner in the assemblage. It functions not to clarify or to symbolize but to add another layer of materiality, another texture to the encounter.

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