....Reid Drum is a Boston based sculptor who works primarily with steel and mechanical elements to incorporate sound and light into his work. Originally from North Carolina, he now resides in Massachusetts and runs the metal shop at Massachusetts College of Art, where he teaches welding.

....It seems to me that we are all enmeshed in a complex web of physical, biological and culturally constructed systems that are intimately interconnected. I characterize this perspective as ecological in that these interdependent systems must be considered together in order to fathom the dynamic, co-evolving nature of our living world. This perspective is also ecological in that it suggests the open-endedness of our situation, that our extensive organic connectedness is not limited to the cycles of our immediate biological cocoon of the biosphere, but extends in subtle ways to the vast cycles of the wilderness of our local universe. Integral to this in a fundamental way is the ecology of the psyche, of our intellects, emotions and imaginations.

....My goal is to create works that aspire to the economy of means of a primitive proto-organism. I try to make them exhibit a degree of autonomy, so that they create their own unexpected rhythms and patterns, or somehow disclose the characteristics of the particular stream of elemental forces in which they are embedded. I ultimately hope to engage the viewer in a direct experience of our connectedness to vast invisible systems.