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March 3, 2026

This sculpture stages a condition of containment rather than an act of display. A dense, mineralized form has organized itself around an internal presence of conditional visibility.

The surrounding mass suggests a structure that preserves through pressure and restriction. Rather than resolving into narrative or transformation, the work remains in a state of latency, where energy is stored, access constrained, and meaning held in abeyance. The form suggests an unearthing of deep-seated memory, or the slow, pressurized emergence of light from within darkness and an invitation to peer into a void without fully entering it.

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Wall, 36x30, oil, acrylic, pumice, and polymer emulsion on canvas. The texture and scraping away of paint to reveal hints of color beneath makes this painting more than a black and white depiction. A #wall is never black and white even if the initial
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