Sometimes I forget I am in a body. I drift in thought until something physical returns me. The materials and processes I use mine the gaps between physical experience and a wandering mind. My pieces usually begin with an image of some imagined scenario or something glimpsed out the corner of my eye. These things evolve as I build. Making shifts the idea, the way a dream image changes mid-dream. Construction becomes a site of discovery.

In these works, leaves tick forward on clock motors, and rough materials strain toward animal form. Through visible mechanisms, clumsy mimicry, and the rawness of unrefined matter, I look for the seam where my fantasy of the natural overlaps with real spaces and things. I am the opposite of a magician: what interests me is not seamless illusion, but how something real can emerge in the exposed tension.

Over the past two decades, Rosen has developed site-specific projects
across Maine and beyond, including permanent outdoor works in
Lewiston, ME, and has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues
such as the Portland Museum of Art (ME), Jim Kempner Fine Arts (NY),
Tacoma Museum of Art (WA), Cuchifritos Gallery (NY), Pulse Art Fair (FL),
Ogunquit Museum of American Art (ME), and Tetra Projects in Mytilene,
Greece. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a BFA from
Alfred University