2022-2023 Public Sculptures

Reused industrial pipe are a focal component of the sculpture Deflection. These were not new pipes, they were discarded parts no longer straight or structural for standard construction. I chose to give these elements new life and meaning through my sculpture process. Now manipulated with bends, twists, and sections cut away for aesthetic reasons. Combining the old and discarded with newly fabricated forms to demonstrate growth and rebirth.

My work focuses on the female figure and how we choose to allow ourselves to be judged by standards of appearance. These standards are self-imposed in response to societal expectations and our own innate need to conform. When we let these pressures push us out of true we are shifted off our personal foundations. Our true form may or may not be consistent with the contemporary idealized image of a beautiful, successful woman. Clothing such as high heels and corsets reform the body into an unnatural shape, which may paradoxically be considered the ideal. This corset is simply a three-dimensional silhouette, which implies the building or creation of a woman and reinforces these stereotypes and gender roles.

“Sunrise/Sunset (Sawblade)” is an exercise in abstraction of form and heuristics. An archetype of our sun is reduced to simple geometries, duplicated, flipped, and connected. The resulting aggressive, mechanistic aesthetic resembles a saw blade and alludes to the high-capacity industrial power of solar energy. The peach color of sunrise is contrasted with the bold red of sunset, with sky blue in-between. This arrangement is based on the old saying “Red sky at night, a sailor’s delight.”