Loss researches forms and movements lost through the process of documentation. As a sculptor, my work is distributed primarily through flattened images. When one experiences a sculpture through image documentation, the experience of the sculpture is reduced to the point of view of the photographer, the site of the sculpture becomes the edges of the image, instead of the space the sculpture was built for or in.
In Loss sculpture, I put forth the physical burden of transporting a sculpture I’ve held onto for years now.
In the begining of the performance, I felt a distance between me and this object, I carved and burned two years ago, but as I continue to move with it, I begin to feel more connected to this form and the weight transforms from a burden into a companion. I felt myself begining to cradle the sculpture like a baby. This process of care is lost when one experiences a sculpture through images.
video can be found here: https://vimeo.com/1040985965?share=copy
Loss sculpture is a video performance on loop of the artist bearing the weight of her sculpture displayed on an iPhone 11.
The video is attached to a panel of transparency film adhered to painted wood.
Transparency film is the empty image, the suggestion of an image, or the material image.
Loss sculpture, 2024
Wood, acrylic, transparent folie, glossy photo paper, video on loop 1 minute and 22 seconds
The sculpture materializes only as a suggestion.
Flange liberates the steel flange as an object always in use in the everyday built environment and allows it
to become unattached from function.
Flange, 2024
Raspberry alabaster