Stochastic - Matthew Gramling & Christopher A Brooks
Stochastic.
My work here is purposeful in it’s attempt to physically connect us to our entanglements in life, and demonstrate how we experience our most intimate hours as sentient beings in tandem with subatomic happenings. At least, that’s where my head is at!
I’ve had some truly lovely conversations with friends, family and clients in which we all seem to be reconstructing our reality from the broken bits left to us by offensive years. We look for hope in a collective consciousness, and find meaning in the way the physical world makes limits without telling us what they truly are.
Matthew Gramling is a Milwaukee-based woodworker with a practice in functional and artistic design. Gramling began working professionally as a restoration carpenter in 2004, is self taught, and has a background in art and music. He is the founder of The Table Saw Supper Club.
Gramling is a a father of 4 sons, and lives with the 3 that aren’t yet adults.
Christopher A. Brooks is a woodworker and artist who lives and works in Milwaukee WI. A former teacher, college dropout and aspiring visual/musical artist who found employment in the trades. After many years of a grueling schedule working under an angry old timer as a carpenter, he yearned to make less money and struck out on his own. For the last 12 years Christopher has been practicing his craft independently; Attempting to incorporate his creative predilections into a gratifying and sustainable career free from the indignity of modern splendors such as retirement security, vacations and healthcare. Christopher is a loving boyfriend/husband, proud cat father and owns a cool van. He currently works in the Harambee neighborhood of Milwaukee designing and building functional and aesthetically pleasing three dimensional objects.