My friend Caleb Neelon tipped me off to Luke O'Sullivan's 3-d works. His "alternate cartoon/ flatland" world is pretty neat. Plus he was born in the same part of Boston (Jamaica Plain) that I was...so that's awesome off the bat. ;) I asked Luke to talk to me about his wooden, silk screened sculptures:
"I have been obsessed with drawing buildings for a long time, it started when I was kid, and in some ways I'm still making very similar drawings, but now I play with power tools, because I can. And so [they are] 3-d! But seriously...I've been floating between making miniature worlds and making props from those worlds on a life-size scale. All of my 3-d work is a departure from a landscape print series i began in 2003. At some point drawing and etching on a flat surface felt a bit stale, I really wanted to be working more with my hands, building the cities and arranging them in space."
