Encounter 2021

Glass cast pressings of the interiors of the artist’s family’s hands, 12 pieces, dimensions variable.

Encounter is comprised of ten sculptural glass elements that interlace together to create a network of forms. Each glass element was made from a pressing of the interiors of my family’s hands. I created a series of connection points between them resembling ball and socket joints in the human skeleton, where one component could rest in the cradling shape of another; a series of nodes within the network that express gentle and supportive moments of connection and intimacy.

Aura 2022

Silk, sunlight, 1280 x 8400mm.

Cyantotypes made by casting sunlight through glass sculptures, made from pressings of the interiors of the artist’s family’s hands (as seen in Encounter).

Cyanotyping is an image-making process that uses UV light to capture the shadows of objects. These images become floating, inverse versions or auras of the original forms.

Aura explores the folding in of self and world, and a collapsing of the intimate and the infinite. The work casts a sense of my familial lineage, in the intimate glass cast details of the inner landscape of my family’s hands, onto a vast plane of dark silk, that floats in the vaster, dark space of its installation.

Photography: Matthew Stanton