Ashley Andel

Interested in anomalies, waste, cartoons, horror vacui, pulling shapes, unusual or found objects, obsolete formats, automatic writing, globalization, satire, eccentrics, class issues, chance encounters, misinterpretation, jellyfish, kitchen sink realism, hallucinations, intuition, blasphemies, superstition… accessibly esoteric.

About CONTRAPTIONS: 

“It must be some symbolism… I think it’s symbolic of junk.” -- Mel Brooks in The Critic, 1963.

Using collected ephemera and found material from workplaces as a reference point, these works imagine Kurt Schwitters designing Rube Goldberg machines. While decorative in nature, these curio pieces attest to labour, and use industrial waste in ways a jeweller might.