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WIDOW, 2025

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Description

The WIDOWS sculpture series is an outgrowth of my Slipstream sculpture and video series, extending Slipstream’s material and conceptual goals. The original Slipstream artworks begin as graphite drawings on paper, launching a long odyssey of production and mutation. The drawings are torn into pieces and then reconfigured in bespoke sculptures. Each piece represents a 3D “mark” in space. Documented as 3D objects through photogrammetry, digital artifacts are added and excised through machine learning. As digital objects, they transform further once they are textured, lit, and animated using CG software. The drawings’ transmutations embody a shifting logic as they traverse the softwares that shape them. As film stills printed on paper or silk, they reckon with the core question of the Ship of Theseus; what, after version upon version, remains of the original? WIDOWS reduces the mark-making visible on each torn piece of the Slipstream sculptures to the essence of the work’s orginal mark-making tool, graphite. WIDOWS are made of paper coated in graphite paint, graphite powder, iridescent medium, particulate holographic plastic, and hand-cut silk (printed with cinematic stills of Slipstream sculptures). Symbolically, they reference ecological collapse, a “burned” botanical/avian structure in the process of being renatured (with silk) or still glowing with embers (again, in the silk imagery). 100% of proceeds will be routed through LA AYUDA network, an artist-run coalition supporting vulnerable communities impacted by the LA wildfires.

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