ABOUT AGGREGATES

The Aggregate Series combines sticks, branches and vines with man-made ropes and knots. These familiar objects carry the organic rhythms of growth and decay along with the human impulse to hold things together and harness our surroundings. By making molds of the forms and shaping them in soft clay, I translate them into a shared material language and blur boundaries between them. Vines twist into ropes, knots morph into branches, each part flowing into the next and back again.

The twisting forms can feel alive, as if they’re moving, stretching, or reaching, while at the same time decaying, fossilized or frozen in time. In this way, they suggest both harmony and tension, both malleability and a breaking point. They might remind us of bones, roots, or remnants of something once living. This in-between quality is intentional. I want the work to evoke that sense of transformation we all recognize: the constant balancing act between holding on and letting go, building and breaking down, shaping and being shaped.

At its core, this series explores how we interact with the living systems around us: how we nurture them, restrain them, and sometimes reshape them entirely. It’s also a reflection of the current moment, fraught with environmental change and uncertainty. But just as importantly, it’s a reminder that we are not separate from these systems. We are part of the environment, woven into its rhythms, dependent on its balance, and bound to its future. Through these forms, I hope to invite reflection and curiosity about the delicate, complicated relationship we share with the world that sustains us.