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MFA Sculpture

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Prioritizing physical experiences in the material world over the abstract and the digital, I create sculpture, sound, and installation works to explore emergent consciousness and transformative experiences. Through the use of iterative casting and found materials, my work engages with the shifting nature of memory and experience. Building primitive radios and non-digital sound machines, the work interrogates narrow definitions of technology. My practice emphasizes agency, calling attention to our capacity for transformation. I consider this work a form of alchemy, exploring alternative routes to transcendence through matter.

figure listening to mound of clay, concrete rubble, glass hand, copper wire around and up to the ceiling. sand on floor.

5 Crystal Radios
Composed of 5 crystal radios, this piece is made of cast glass, galena lead crystals, copper, clay, concrete, sand. Rather than music, it captures the wild static in the air, which has been bouncing around the universe since The Big Bang.

Formless glass lump with wires, and a pocket with sand and a tiny sword

You Cannot Know What It Felt Like To Pull The Sword From The Stone Yet The Legend Persists
This piece is a functioning radio receiver that I built without wiring for a headset – it receives signal but you can't listen to it. Radio receiver made of hot casted glass, copper, silver antennae, galena lead crystal, sand, concrete, and one of my grandfather's cocktail swords.

Bronze in progress, detail. Cast bronze with heat auroras.

Bronze in Progress
Cast bronze with heat auroras.

a hole in the studio wall, the drywall used as base for plaster textural form

Hole In The Wall
Studio drywall, plaster.

concrete object and vocalist sitting next to it

A Speaker For The Dead
Hurdy-gurdy inspired sound machine made of concrete, sand sourced from local beaches, textile mill spool, metal hardware. It creates a droning/churning/bleating sound that reaches through time to access those that came before.