Hammet Reavis

Lives and works in Sewanee, TN

Artist statement

Through a delicate interplay of found objects, Hammet Reavis’s work addresses the human impulse to name, measure, and control the unknown. His most recent work features a series of found frameworks constructed from reclaimed measuring and organizing tools—calipers, micrometers, flat files, and labeling tape. If the subject of these pieces is calculation, each is itself calculated to slowly unravel in the viewer’s mind—revealing that our most precise systems are often our most fragile. It asks what is truly lost and what is gained when, in parsing the world, we divide the whole into representative parts.

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