Preview
Creation Date
2025
Dimensions
23 x 18 x 24 Inches
Materials
Main body of sculpture made of pinewood and wood glue, hairpin made of stainless steel, wild clay ceramic, dolostone, steel, basswood, and PLA plastic
Medium
Sculpture
Project Advisor
Rob Neilson and Meghan Sullivan
Year of Graduation
20258
Rights
Copyright for this work is held by the artist.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
COinS
Artist Statement
This sculpture reflects how unintended outcomes can become meaningfully transformative. It draws the parallel of how we are most significantly shaped by unforeseen experiences and hardships. By carving a self-portrait out of a block of wood, I am constantly adapting, problem solving, and reshaping my own form every day. It is an intense cycle of sawing, angle grinding, dremmeling, gluing, nailing, and wood filling day in and day out. By photographing and recording this daily progress, my goal is to show how tedious, subtle, and time-consuming change can be. Sometimes it is difficult to accept change and give ourselves permission to take risks. However, working on this sculpture has taught me to trust the process and let go of my perfectionist tendencies.