Small Disturbances
2024 · Mixed-media sculptures
Small Disturbances is a group of twelve small mixed-media sculptures developed through Mindflow May, a month-long studio challenge I began in 2022 as a daily drawing practice. After two years of drawing, I returned to the challenge in May 2024 through sculpture, working intuitively with materials at hand to assemble unfamiliar forms.
The objects draw on associations with fragments of organisms, bodily sensations and shifting psychological states. Each sculpture takes its title from an experience, feeling or pattern of thought, ranging from disorientation and self-soothing to anticipation and altered perception. Together, they form an open-ended collection of physical counterparts to experiences that are sometimes difficult to describe or hold in place.
Selected works
Disoriented — Materials: papier-mâché, paint, cat hair, wires.
Hyperdimensional critter — Materials: metal wire, paint, stones, fishing line, sunglass lenses, plastic tube, test tubes, shell.
Emotional takeaway — Materials: stone, air-dry clay, paint, display case.
Temporary disturbance — Materials: tracing paper, air-dry clay, metal wire, pigment liners, paint.
Incubation — Materials: metal wire, air-dry clay, feather, plastic test tube, paint.
Self-soothing — Materials: metal wire, air-dry clay, pigment liner.
Spine runner — Materials: air-dry clay, metal wire, paint.
Abstract feeling to which no attention was paid — Materials: metal wire, air-dry clay, zip ties, paper, fishing line, pigment liners, paint.
Future-tripping — Materials: metal wire, air-dry clay, paint, metallic cardboard.
Paresthesia — Materials: metal wire, air-dry clay, glass, paint.
The ambivalent time traveller — Materials: air-dry clay, alum stone, paint.
Edging — Materials: metal wire, plastic eyepatch, paint, cat hair.