Location: New York City, NY, USA
Medium: My practice centers on large-scale sculpture, using materials including metal, wood, paper, coconut fiber, rice husks, red clay, burnt soil, and rabbit skin glue.
Contact: admin@fuguegallery.com
My practice centers on sculpture as a way of narrating experience through spatial measures, exposing the tension between genuine potential and its false substitutes. Rooted in my upbringing in North Carolina, my work grows from an early intimacy with land, material, and quiet environments that continue to anchor my approach. I often create delicate, creature-like forms suspended in states of balance and transformation, using them to explore fragile systems of support, both physical and unseen. Sound, and the act of tracing what remains when it is no longer present, is integral to my process as I consider how silence can be held, measured, or suggested through physical form. By blurring distinctions between human, animal, and natural forms, I construct sculptural landscapes that reflect on vulnerability, loss, and the inevitability of return, questioning what it means to exist within or beyond the boundaries of the physical present.
*Future Forward Feature "My work is future-forward in its focus on cycles and repetition as fundamental structures shaping our daily lives and shared realities. I use sound and bodily sensation as measuring tools to identify and understand elements of existence, translating these forces into animalistic, creature-like forms. These beings preserve recognizable ideals of architecture and systems we encounter every day, yet recontextualize them as living organisms that coexist alongside us. By collapsing the boundaries between structure and body, function and feeling, my work envisions existence itself as lived and experienced within the constraints of our world, expressed through a physical, bodily language."
