JEFF ONO’s hand built sculpture explores the juncture of two differing abstract systems. When the relationship between the two systems is harmonious, the essence of each system remains intact within the newly unified form. Given an abrasive commingling, the systems pierce into or rip through each other integrally fusing, entwining, and or mutating while obliterating old and punctuating new connection points and abscesses. “At the intersection of two differing systems there is a usually a disruption, often violent and sudden in nature (hiccup, sneeze, orgasm, coronary failure), or occasionally slow and deliberate (tumor, virus). My work functions not as a metaphor for the body, but rather uses metonymy—visual signs built around the illuminations and limitations which describe the body.”