Actual Size 2003 [detailed resume]	Brent Sommerhauser My current work finds its roots in my glass practice, where my material interests held glass as the ephemeral, the invisible, the implied and as a canvas for dialogue between absence and presence. Whereas earlier work incorporated the found and altered object, my current work is that of finding, altering and claiming space and time. The search for an unintentional residue of inhabitance led me into abandoned homes, scheduled for demolition. In considering the home?s interior as a reference to the body, to memory and to the psyche; the anonymous mark and the anxious gesture are what I took away. Once it has left my hand, the work enters through the shifts of context, with my alterations linking residential or discarded material to the human countenance. In part, it is the recognition of their change that will urge my sculptures and installations to poetically quiet a space and acknowledge a moment. In considering the function of the work, I look specifically to the storyteller's use of recognition, connection and transformation as vehicles for a voluble outcome. This precedent is now my language for sculpture that relies on tomorrow, but celebrates the past and its delivery to the present.