Travis uses a mixture of reclaimed building materials, art student wood scraps, and other hardware store materials to create idiosyncratic sculptures that play off the forms and functions of tools, toys, and military equipment.  These process oriented works take a winding path to completion, evolving from continuously redrawn sketches and traveling through many transformations before being cut apart, reassembled, and reworked. Embracing the unplanned, these oddly familiar, nearly useful-looking sculptures are imbued with human characteristics and gestures. Curious inspection and patient observation reveal previously unseen drawings and room-like interiors. These things have handles, openings, drawn symbols, and moveable parts, but like the mystery of a ritual object from a broken-down culture, the physical or metaphorical functions are left to the imagination. In an increasingly commercialized, fast, displaced society, Travis is attempting to build slow, clumsy objects that reveal a layered history.