His practice seeks a balance between raw and refined, driven by a keen interest in material and cultural context. Currently, he is exploring notions of weightlessness, impermanence, and the primordial.
Dan's work has been recognized by organizations such as USM Modular Furniture, DesignMiami, and the Royal Ontario Museum.
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[2021]
aluminum, corrugated PVC, bricks, moss, salt, algae
A sculptural work exploring the impact of human intervention on nature, as well as nature's resilience, through materiality and form. The piece is composed of man-made materials which are broken down by 'natural mediators' (moss, rust, algae). Over different scales of time — days, years, millennia, these materials are slowly degraded, their matter returned to the land.