ABOUT

Seven Phillips is a multimedia artist working closely with objects of industrial decay as both subject matter and physical media. He began collecting scrap metal artifacts that have been discarded, forgotten, and handed over to the chemical processes of entropy from various remote locations. He aims to explore the tenuous symbiosis between the natural and the industrial and bring abstraction to the concrete by recreating artifacts whose original industrial purposes have become largely obscured, if not rendered completely obsolete by the joint functions of nature and time. 

With each portrait of one of these artifacts, Seven aims to convey a deep reverence for that which is created by forces over which the human hand has no control. The objects utilized implore the viewer to dispense with the usual subjective, representational mode of viewing in favor of taking the inexplicable allure of these objects at face value, recognizing the singular molecular and energetic identity of each.

With his rust dyed fabric pieces, Seven wishes to further investigate the alchemical aspects of decay and chemistry, exploring ways to evoke the delicate balance between that which we can control and that which we cannot. Each piece is handmade individually with the help of these processes and each result is completely one of a kind, dictated by the unique conditions under which it was created.