Sculpture & Installation

Figurative Sculpture

Personal instruction from Alba Corrado at RISD in 2017-18. Sculpting from life included standing and seated figures, portrait studies, and sculptural studies from gathered reference images.

Smelling Wallflowers

This piece was made from deconstructed belle époque wallpaper, cut and arranged over a figure drawing. This work was shown in Rome as a sensory installation. The shelf held a brewed combination of nuts, dried fruit, and flowers encapsulated in a tea infuser, which filled the surrounding space with the aroma of fruit and honey.

Wood “Palette”

In this work, I drilled into a piece of reclaimed wood board and used wood reed coil of various widths to achieve different markmaking possibilities. In this way, this experiment became my painter’s palette– or palate.

SOYLENT: Welded Steel Leaf

I tried to recreate a “dusty miller” leaf out of steel though methods of welding and metalworking. The leaf sculpture is finished in Paint, Spray Adhesive, Wood Flour, and Soylent (food powder) for texture. To make the leaf body from steel I used a diacro metal bending tool, plasma cutter by hand, and MIG and OxyAcetylene gas welding.

Phosphorescent Fungi

For a site-specific installation I sculpted a series of eleven mushrooms from wood. For the mushroom caps, I glued and clamped a pair of poplar blocks to create a form that I could chisel the shape from. Creating a disc jig helped with this process. I hollowed the cap on a drill press and used thin wood strips discarded from a table saw to make wooden gills under the caps. I gathered some found wood branches that were satisfyingly twisted, spoke shaved them, and sanded them before attaching them to the underside of the caps.

My next step after sanding them completely smooth (a process spend up with an angle grinder) was to cover them in several layers of white gesso. I wanted them to charge by sunlight, so I filled them with gllow-in-the-dark UV powder and clear epoxy resin.

Incense Thicket

With this wood sculpture, I incorporated smell as the main point of the sculpture. I created pillar forms on a wood lathe, then rubbed them with powdered incenses and set a torch on them before they were rubbed again with incense.

Gateway Installation

I made an installation about memory spaces and fantasy doors. For this, I designed and carved a ouija board doormat out of a block of mahogany wood.

Bronze Lost Wax Casting

Process of bronze casting and accelerated patina.