a body of hours, 2023

Lupin Gallery at The Lamar Dodd School of Art

a body of hours makes reference to mechanical time keeping devices as a way of immersing viewers in biological and natural forces that influence our understanding of the temporal. Sculptural works that include the mediums of handmade paper, printmaking methods, steel fabrication, plastic waste, and mold casting create a textured web of repeating images and patterns. In a body of hours, the blending of materials and use of replication coalesce into a cycle with an undeterminable origin or terminus. Through formal elements of fragility and material hybridization, this work examines what it means to grow within the presence of toxicity, and the patterns that remain intact throughout that growth. Rather than the hours ticking away on a clock, these works investigate time as a concept to represent transformation. Time is birth, death, heredity, memory, light, dark: a body of hours.