This work was commissioned by Extrartis and DOM Art Residens and produced during a two-week residency at Relais La Rupe in Sorrento, Italy. 

In this piece, I have spread filler across the surface using a scraper, allowing it to distribute naturally according to the properties of the material. The space between the two dominant shapes may evoke the ravines that divide the mountains in the Sorrento Peninsula. The house where we stayed and worked was placed right on top of a cliff beside one of these deep ravines. At the bottom was a ruin of a mill.

Spread is a compilation of work made by spreading the filler along the depth of the rim with a scrape. Letting a single action shape the result is reminiscent of Richard Serra's Verb List. It functioned as a kind of manifest for Serra's way of producing sculptures. To spread is on the list. It's about making art by exposing a matter to different types of forces.