Note on Artist // by John Ros, curator

Mechanics, inter-workings, and the relationships between utility and beauty fold into and out of Olney's pieces. Enveloped whole segments compress and churn associations to objects, reshaping our understood landscape. Developing a new visual nomenclature, more than parts becoming whole, these objects articulate at the mechanization point — function meets hand, or in this case eye — coming together to inform sight and feel.