GAY OUTLAW:

I can’t remember making art and thinking, oh, you know, I’ve made this thing other than a more traditional type thing. You know, when I was a kid, I loved to bake. So those were temporary objects, but I was always baking and I liked sweets. And I still do. And I was taught to knit and needlepoint and cross-stitch and embroidery. I did all of that stuff with my mother and my grandmother. It was photography that sort of led me back to making objects. I was photographing isolated objects and I realized I was really interested in how they related to each other and what their shapes were. Skillet Pillar was one of the results of the playing around with mold making, and that rubber is actually a rubber that’s used as a mold material because it’s flexible so you can cast into it and peeling off, you know, off the plaster or whatever you’re casting. 

I think I started doing that because I wanted to cast a teacup in epoxy and cover it with something. And then I liked the mold. That’s what happens to me a lot. You know, I like something along the way and try to investigate that.