Aaron Decker

This lil bomb and the following iterations come from mechanical toys, childhood drawings, and Aaron’s fear/love of clowns. Much of the layered imagery in this work has to do with childhood memories – some pleasant and reassuring, others, darker and more foreboding. Objects have the power to carry us away, transport us into and out of our minds. Decker loves making these immersive pieces with details that are like a landscape you discover as you wear and interact with them.

The tediousness of enameling on 3d forms, hand-making each part in silver, and turning screws to make it function – Aaron builds the pieces like a small scene, each detail magnified through my microscope, and only when finished does he get to step back and see a character assembled out of tiny conceived parts.