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These sculptures are made of pigmented abaca paper pulp with copper wire, cast from asphalt parking lot cracks.
When casting cracks, I use handformed abaca pulp deliberately: it is delicate yet surprisingly strong, like the human body. Like the Japanse art of Kintsugi, the filled cracks reveal a history and a resilience. Embedding a copper wire as a skeleton allows the paper to lift from the site, keeping the shape of that fracture: a 1:1 map with dirt clinging to the fiber. It folds and unfolds: a vessel of only cracks, a scar that can cast a shadow.
Untitled (gentle embrace), 2022
Pigmented abaca paper pulp with copper wire, cast from asphalt parking lot cracks
21 x 14 x 9 in.
Resilient (after snow and sea), 2022/2023
Pigmented abaca paper pulp with copper wire, cast from asphalt parking lot cracks
26 x 16 x 6 in.
City Veins, 2022
Pigmented abaca paper pulp with copper wire, cast from asphalt parking lot cracks
48 x 36 x 1 in.
Untitled (cracks), 2021
Pigmented abaca paper pulp with copper wire, cast from asphalt parking lot cracks
Dimensions variable (here approx. 70 x 98 in.)
SOLD (collection of Hickok Cole Architects)
Untitled (cracks), 2021
Alternate arrangement
Untitled (cracks, or Mending at Dark), 2021
Pigmented abaca paper pulp with copper wire, cast from asphalt parking lot cracks
Dimensions variable (here approx. 40 x 74 in.)
SOLD
Untitled (cracks, or Mending at Dark), 2021
alternate arrangment
Untitled (cracks, or Mending at Dark)
side view of alternate arrangment
Untitled (embrace), 2020/2021
Pigmented abaca paper pulp with copper wire, cast from asphalt parking lot cracks
Dimensions variable, approx 40 x 36 x 16 in. here
SOLD
Untitled (embrace), 2020/2021
Alternate arrangement, as installed in collector’s home.