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castings (cracks)

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.