Soft & Shiny
Soft and Shiny
Salvaged Styrofoam peanuts, reused cardboard, teal PVC sewer pipe, and cast metal come together in these sculptures where fragility meets weight and dull surfaces catch the light. Each form begins with materials meant for protection or utility, now reshaped to hold their own quiet presence.
The teal color of the pipe, typically used for sewer and drainage systems, becomes a point of transformation. Combined with cardboard in one installation and with artificial rose petals in another, the industrial and the delicate merge in unexpected ways.
I sort, press, and cast these materials, letting their textures guide the compositions. The foam’s softness leaves traces in the metal, and the cardboard’s corrugation becomes a pattern of memory. Through repetition and reflection, the works explore transformation, how waste becomes form and how shine can emerge from what was once overlooked.
Cinergy Synergy
Fiberoptic internet cable, steel, cable ties, and ratchet tie downs
Science fiction and diagrams of black holes and wormholes in space influenced the designs for Cinergy Synergy. The primary medium in this sculpture is salvaged cut-off pieces of fiber optic cable. This post-consumer waste cannot be spliced and thus longer be used for its intended purpose of carrying data. As the black holes of internet cable connect across each opening, the open sides reveal the labor of construction and fabrication of cut wires and cable ties that hold the portals together.