Francisco Josue Alvarado Araujo is an artist and educator based in DFW, with a studio in Fort Worth, Texas. His work plays with potential for objects to relate in intricate, delicate and precarious ways. The focus on material connectivity across a range of materials leans into an open, expansive and disoriented view of the world, that allows fragility, fluidity, and interchangeability to move through the work.
The work is made of found objects in precarious situations that anticipate collapse. Light engineering and various mending strategies are employed to highlight characteristics of the discarded matter. Friction, compression and tension interface with delicate touch, resulting in balanced makeshift structures that are conditional and ephemeral.
Objects that have been cast off are the preferred materials for the work, adding a sense of serendipity, chance and transformation. The emergent compositions are driven by intuitive organizations in space that settle into states of temporary stability, states of waiting, yearning, slow undoing, entropy.
