Ronan has been doing Random Not Random things for his whole life. Everything seems random - chaotic - nonsensical. Jabberwocky in life. But I’m certain he is telling emotional stories with these constructions. Sculptures is also accurate. It is both craft and art. He is synthesizing his experience of the world - telling the story of the movie in his head. Duchamp said that art was the space between the creative thought and the object thus produced. He meant it as an abstraction - a non-physical connection between the world of mind and the world of broken dreams. Ronan’s art captures that space because he is not typical. I think Ronan finds meaning embedded much more significantly and thoroughly than most.

Ronan’s art often is a means of coping with the ‘voice’ of his brain. Brains are perverse and try to trick us all the time. I tell Ronan that you must tell your brain what you want - don’t let it tell you. Elasticity of mind is gained through use. Ronan uses art to cope with emotional stresses.

What’s in the Glad Box? Fears? Hopes? Loops? Expectations? The Past? The Future? I don’t know…

The “Glad Box” - “Not Gardening” - and “Spring” all appeared in 2008. These pieces always just appear. Always have as noted.

I didn’t understand the Glad Box until 10 years later - a few weeks ago as I write this in fact - when he randomly started talking to me about why he sometimes tapes and wraps things up in boxes and bags. I didn’t understand but I believe he’s currently working on another sculpture on a parallel line - banishing some loop from his psyche.

Not Gardening involved every bin we owned. Old shirts. A shovel. Something got buried in the grass by the path. I know not what.

Spring was a random request from Ronan. Blue jello and then he picked things from the dollar store. Again it was about ten years later that its meaning became clearer. We were shooting a video of him explaining his long poem Bozforus - The Game. One of the lines is - The Creative Doing Thing - and he explained, ten years later and unprompted - that this is what the bowl of blue jello and butterflies and such was all about. The Creative Doing Thing.