ULA EINSTEIN multi disciplinary art  |
 In utilizing materials and tools in ways that detour and extend from their customary purpose, my work explores conversion, change, option and transformation. I also re-utilize materials and tools, found objects and scavenged items from my daily environment. Using the common, familiar, and often overlooked I play with what is unexpected. The quality of intent and surrender is an important part of the process.
Obsessed with line, connections and interruptions, my practice and rituals include drawing with fire, burning incense sticks, blades, wire, soldering iron, thread, hot glue.
Burning in as I burn away is simultaneous.
Blade marks cut through and away.
Additive/ subtractive processes are a significant part in exploring positive and negative space, both formally and conceptually. Burning and blading are marks that cannot be taken back or erased.
Thread needled through paper and coming back out again, is used as much to stitch and bind, as it is to draw line and interfere.
Creating ambiguous surfaces with i.e. buckram, flexi, tyvek, tarlatan, gauze – materials traditionally used as interiors for clothes, housing or bookmaking is a metaphor for making the invisible visible.
Traces of one work can be found in another i.e. balloons used as sculptural
foundation will surface in an installation.
Installations consisting of fragments made in the studio and then created site specific for exhibition, are never installed the same way twice.
My work is influenced by the processes of nature: incubation, growth, decay
and regeneration or renewal. I’m interested in the relationship between the
formal and the familiar, the synthetic and the natural, destruction and creation.
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