Craig Pleasants
Dodecahedron (1999)
Charred wood
80" x 160" x 160"
Craig Pleasants has drawn his ideas for sculptural shelter, mixing architectural traditions with metaphorical materials, for the past two decades. Having cut his teeth on conceptual and environmental art, Marcel Duchamp, Alan Kaprow, Josef Beuys, Robert Smithson, and others, he originally developed concepts that merged the absurd with the conscientiously sociological. At some early point this led to the exploration of actual built environments using experimental materials. It's a subject that now gives practical form and mission to his current work on behalf of affordable structures such as his prototype for the Octagonal Living Unit (OLU).