20 Broken Objects — First Covered State
The objects before they went anywhere — each one wrapped and taped, gathered in a pile that looks more like a sorting office than an artwork. This was the moment the broken things became something else.
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Candle Spiral
Handmade beeswax candles arranged in a loose spiral on a concrete floor, inside a room built from cardboard sheets — the warmth of the flames against the rawness of the space. It held together better than it had any right…
Blessed? Light Piece
A light box on the floor, casting the word “BLESSED” onto the wall at an angle — the question mark in the title doing most of the work. Whether it lands as benediction or irony depends entirely on where you’re…
The Box Family — Board with Frosted Acrylic, Copper and Light
The orange light, a function of the copper interior, housed inside the cardboard box, the acrylic face glowing against the dark. The box doing more work than a box usually has to.
Another View of the Box Family with Light
The same piece emerging into the light itself, the ambient light washing out at the edges — the shadow of something cast onto the face of the acrylic. A quieter version of the same idea.
Nesting Cardboard Box Family
Five corrugated cardboard boxes made to nest inside each other, each one a slightly different proportion to the last. The exposed flute at every edge is the whole point — these are not trying to look like anything other than…
5 Boxes — a State of Mind
Five versions of the same basic form lined up in order — cardboard, card, and lead — each one a similar idea in a different material or manner. A question about what a box actually is.
First Box — This Time in the Photo Studio
The same box, properly photographed — plain paper wrapping, string, white background. The studio version of a thing that had previously only existed on a worktop.
Solid Box — Backlit in Studio
The solid cardboard cube in the studio, the light catching the flute at every edge and making it glow slightly, and appear penetrable.
The First Box — to Protect a Humble Piece of Polystyrene, Compressed by Great Force
The first box I made, built to house a piece of polystyrene that had been compressed and deformed — the container more substantial than its contents. That imbalance felt about right.