MAURICE CITRON
	ARTIST STATEMENT ARTIST CV STUDIO PRACTICE CONTACT	I am happier when the studio experience is playful, visceral and improvised. Making work is characterised by a haptic mode of sensing and encountering materials, form and structure. The haptic is more than just a tactile sense of surface, it is a space without co-ordinates, without a visual perspectival framework. Image thinking is replaced by a sense of blind immersion in materiality. The hands see and work proceeds from a dialectic engagement with the extensions and restrictions of materials. Preconceived imagined ends are avoided and in this respect, the reading of the work is in its making. I'm fascinated by the apparent ability of work to retain a temporal quality of the act of making. There is humour in the work. A quality of the absurd comes through in the incongruous meeting of materials and found objects. These meetings produce the possibilities of transformations and the work thus moves towards the unknown and has a non-identity quality. For me, meaning is ex post facto and provisional. Consequently, the question of status becomes an interesting point.The work is not weighty with meaning, it does not make any statements, neither are the pieces prototypes with a promise of a final resolution. Instead, the work becomes its own record of a continuous engagement with materials and objects.