David D'Orio + studio

Rockets, Bombs, and Pull Toys

This body of work presents visions of playful violence, double speak, and innuendo. The narrative I put forth is based on the idea that the way we live, think, see, and feel can be altered at moments notice. These changes, many times explicitly real, often abrupt, and sometimes violent, leave us as at a place of reinvention.

Feeder Project

The "Feeder" project is comprised of a series of sculpture that explore the idea of supply, demand, consumption, and distribution. The work presented explores the construct of consumer and supplier and it’s implication of domesticity, subservience, reliance and the perceived (if not actual) imbalance in power. This series explores systems of distribution that rely on repetition and duplication. The fiction or reality created, presents the idea of mass production and technology as a solution. There is a sense of utilitarian optimism in that the objects presented could provide a remedy to a problem or problems that are not clearly defined for the viewer. The pieces display a somewhat clumsy or awkward (maybe even failed) attempt at industrial production and thus the maker, time period, origin, and method of construction of these devices becomes unclear. The series references the residue of past actions, equipment for events either historical or prospective, and allusion to dependence, rationing, and scarcity. The “Feeder” series attempts to imagine the intersections between technology, invention, and process of using objects that a utopian or dystopian purpose. The sculpture presented are intended to be the starting place for dialogue, and thus offers no answers, but rather attempts to raise questions for the viewer.

Organs

This body of work presents studies and models that imagine systems of organ forms.