wingspan

Bard College at Simon’s Rock, May 2024. Advisor Zoey Lubitz. Readers Jacob Fossum and Ben Krupka.

This collection of drawings, photographs, and mixed-media sculptures is an exploration of seriality in non-linear storytelling. Inspired by internal architectures of trauma and memory mapping onto physical contexts, this collection functions like an archive, a map, or a flower that unfurls as both indexical and alive.

A central piece in this exhibit, wingspan, pushes the boundaries of sculptural ceramics to a nearly unrecognizable limit, resembling a huge steel marionette as it hangs suspended inside a welded frame.

*Wingspan*, 2024, ceramic, welded steel, airplane wire. 50”x55”x70”
Sculpted from high-grog stoneware on a steel armature, cut off and hollowed, re-assembled with a slip and score technique, textured with over 500 individually sculpted feathers of fine stoneware, black underglaze, and fired to cone 10 in a reduction kiln. Made over two semesters.

*untitled*, 2023. 50x70” Charcoal on paper.

*untitled (Bunny Heads)*, 2023, ceramic and welded steel 10x12x14”
Sculpted from high-grog stoneware on a steel armature, cut off and hollowed, re-assembled with a slip and score technique, fired to cone 10 in an oxidation kiln.

untitled (dead baby bird), found dead baby bird on a piece of concrete extracted from a parking lot. ~14x20” 2024

the Archive of Dreams

Several years ago, in a time of personal upheaval, I began having thematically cohesive dreams - the same characters returning night after night, and imagery which felt strangely specific and meaningful. I began to think of these images as my companions, and these characters sculpturally, as vessels which contained and embodied my emotions. It was clear that I needed an architecture for my grief, a place for it to live and be held by something larger than myself. You can access the full archive, including the transcribed series of dreams, for free on my substack.