Kyle Cottier constructs a union of terrestrial and architectural forms to give identity to personal and universal meditations on the interconnectedness of the human experience and natural world. Illumination of the vascular infrastructure shared by trees and the human body is vital to the material foundation of Cottier’s work. In his intimate and instinctual practice he attends the magnificent subtleties of nature within grain, within wood. Through tedium and attention to the innate integrity of wood, the presence of the artist’s hand revealed in the work is guided by places in the universe where geometry and entropy overlap.

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Navigating these spatial dualities shape the landscape for depth and growth of the human experience and our bodies’ relationship to our environment. Similarly, Cottier’s work reverberates such dualisms through the fragmentation of rigid material into billowing dream-inspired forms and patterns intrinsic in nature and wildlife. He further explores mankind’s situational awareness by realizing animal fantasies through a synchronization of psychological and zoological interpretations taken from his introspective practices. Cottier’s work analyzes and attempts to honor the individual’s place in the family of all things, a single point of connection in an infinite entanglement of life.