jonathan brilliant is the goldsworthy of the coffeeshop

For the Goldsworthy of the coffee shop project I assume the role of a British artist who gathers materials in his natural environment and uses them to execute a site-specific installation. In my version the natural environment is the coffee shop, and my materials are the to-go coffee cup and all its accoutrements. The resulting work is both ironic and labor intensive with a traditional craft based sensibility. In the past, I was an artist in residence at The ox-bow school of art, The Sumter gallery Accessibility program, The Redux Contemporary Art Center and the Vermont Studio center. In all of these residencies I explored my relationship with my adopted natural environment of the coffee shop and the portable consumer fetish of the to-go coffee cup. In this ongoing series of work i continue to explore my sense that the coffee shop and related consumer environs are more organic and nurturing than the "real" natural environment.