Flash Set

On Tuesday, August 9, Matter Projects will present Flash Set, an interconnected series of texture-rich sculptures – over 100 of them – by Toronto-based designer and recurring Matter collaborator, Jamie Wolfond.

Everything designed at Jamie Wolfond Studio starts with an observation about the material world. It could be a car’s differential mechanism, a bendy straw, or in this case, a patch of lichen that grows only on the shady side of a rock.

Each Flash Set piece represents a different experiment, elaborating on the one before by slightly altering the tool, process, or sequence of the steps used to make it. The work is created with nothing but a casting mold, spray paint, a drill, chisel, and sandpaper, but when combined in certain ways, these mundane tools create transformative results.

“In the end, the objects are more like still life photos than sculpture, using the impression of light to transform a composition of marks into a picture,” says Wolfond.