Michael Jones McKean is a sculptor and teacher exploring the nature of objects in relation to folklore, technology, anthropology, geography and magic. His work with materials engages the poetic possibilities of geologic time horizons, and more-than-human sentiences to help reconnect ‘meaning’ to matter. Through an often elliptical working process—at times spanning a decade or more for a single work—McKean employs materials as diverse as older-than-earth-meteorites, of-the-moment technologies, ancient atmospheres, psychotropic medicines, an infamous boat, prismatic rainbows, and the Earth itself. In each, McKean maps out idiosyncratic sculptural constellations where ‘meaning’ finds form; in the process growing deeper, wider, and wilder.

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