SCULPTURES
‘When Are We Looking At?’
(Bumble Bee, Space, and Future)- September 2022
Originally meant to be a painting, I decided to see how far I can push the limits of my mind and made a sculpture instead for these three words.
This sculpture depicts the story of a Bumble Bee and a Human navigating space exploration together in the future.
18 Hexagons have been carefully stacked in a spiraled array, with their angular separation increasing by 5 degrees after every 3 slices. Creating an upward, yet cyclical journey into the future. These hexagons represent the units of time, and mark our ever growing leaps in technology and the way we interact with the universe.
18 Hexagons have been used to represent the 18 Hexagon Mirrors that make up the James Webb Telescope; the largest Optical Telescope out in space that can detect infrared signals emitted approx. 13 billion years ago.
Peering out in the edge of the tower, the human is is looking outwards to meet our attention; is the human in this sculpture looking at us from the past or the future, or from all alternative universe: Leading the Bumble Bee and Human to question: “When Are We Looking At?”
NOTE: With special UV Glow Paint, this sculpture is also made to glow in the dark to capture the full essence of looking up into the night sky.
‘Swarm’
(Cloud, Iridescent , and Sundazed)- Apr/May/July 2022
Iridescence is one of my favorites qualities found in matter. It's a phenomenon that allows our perception of the color of an object to change depending on our angle of view and the angle of light.
Clouds, my favorite characteristic of each day, yet another very difficult subject to capture in a painting.
Over the past few months I have thought endlessly on how to capture the three words together: and here I have my sculptures!
The backstory is that water droplets congregate around small dust particles in the air in the genesis of clouds. Carefully crafted into the different types personalities you can get in the formation of clouds, the iridescent balls are the dust particles that are at the beginning of greatest display of atmospheric water.
Our sun is quite important: is gives us the bliss of warmth, it gives us clouds, and it is the light source that enables the iridescence of matter to be radiantly mesmerizing!
‘I Would Rather Not Drown’
(Undercurrent, Curious, and Peace)- May 2022
This sculpture takes us back to my curiosity about life underwater. I had spent many months immersing myself into the exploration of the sciences and arts around marine life.
After a recent nightmare involving prolonged drowning and the sensation of dying underwater, the sense of unease this experience left me with had shaken my footing on my understanding and connectedness to life underwater.
Although unpleasant this experience and the days following it was, it was an important reminder to me that we are not impervious to getting ourselves fatally entangled with nature despite how much passion we place upon it.
To be at peace with this horrifying outcome in water, I had to accept the unpleasantness for what it really was, unpleasant. In the creation of this sculpture, I found myself ever more fascinated by the ocean and in awe at how brutal it can be.
To show my efforts to understand the ocean, I have become a Hand Wave (the person with the hand body) underneath an Ocean Wave. This visual pun attempts to show the gap and the vast difference in my understanding of oceans and what the ocean is actually capable of.
At any moment, the wave will onto the Hand Figure (as it is only held within the box with just the outward tension of the wave). The recipient of this piece will see it fall eventually, and they can place the wave back to the top if they wish, but it will fall again. That is what life is. There is no overcoming the fear or discomfort of drowning that has been ingrained in our minds for hundreds of centuries. Things will fall and become unbearable and we cannot change the nature of reality.
In conclusion, I would rather not drown.
An Ocean Wave carefully floating above Person Wave (Hand Wave), ready to fall at some point in the future.
Myself, becoming one with the ocean, but erroneously as a hand wave instead of an ocean wave.