About

Yours-Truly is an artist based out of southern Maine, he teaches metal fabrication at Central Maine Community College, and builds sculpture out of his garage. He lives at the end of a dead end road in Cumberland with his partner, son, and four cats.

I would describe my work as being “industrial pop art”. My pieces are all hand fabricated steel, stainless steel, and aluminum, with the final work being powder coated. I sketch daily, and the elements to my pieces always start as a drawing. I am interested in relationships, societal mechanics, and humor.

This current body of work consists of five, large scale, steel narratives derived from the same industrial object at its core. Each piece is an exploration of my life but from the perspective of my favorite industrial object, the Heat Exchanger.

A Heat Exchanger is an industrial object that transfers heat from one carrying medium (water, gas, electricity) to another. During the Covid shut down I took a job fabricating industrial sized Heat Exchangers. They were used to transfer gas-flame/heat and energy into water, much like a boiler. The specific design of Heat Exchanger that I was fabricating had over 300 ft. of welding in each one. I love the Brutalist design of the Heat Exchanger, and I have come to see what they are, as an extension of myself. I quickly came to resent the monotony of fabricating them over and over, but I always liked what they became for me metaphorically.

Exchanging time for currency, time apart for togetherness, youth in exchange for a dream of future happiness. I see the Heat Exchanger as an extension of my metaphysicality, a timekeeper, and a scale of morality. Within the idea of “exchange” there is inevitably “equal exchange” and “unequal exchange”. In my current body of work, I have explored these ideas of equal and unequal exchange through the lens of myself as represented by the heat exchanger. The same design that I came to resent and respect in industry.