Australian Red Mallee Burl, steel and black epoxy inlays.
23 lbs. 22” x 27” x 12”
This work examines the boundary between reasoned structure and forced intervention. The eucalyptus burl forms the governing body of the sculpture. The wood reads as precedent—an ordered system whose complexity emerges through continuous adaptation. Its growth is cumulative and legible, shaped by stress, repair, and time. Penetrating this rational field are crystalline like rods inserted at irregular intervals and depths. They do not emerge from the grain or respond to the wood’s internal logic; they interrupt it. Each insertion behaves less like a structural requirement and more like an external decision imposed after the fact. These elements do not resolve instability or restore order. Instead, they create a condition of managed disruption—forces contained within the structure but never reconciled. The system holds, though unevenly, absorbing interventions that lack justification or proportion.
Australian Red Mallee Burl, steel and black epoxy inlays.
23 lbs. 22” x 27” x 12”
This work examines the boundary between reasoned structure and forced intervention. The eucalyptus burl forms the governing body of the sculpture. The wood reads as precedent—an ordered system whose complexity emerges through continuous adaptation. Its growth is cumulative and legible, shaped by stress, repair, and time. Penetrating this rational field are crystalline like rods inserted at irregular intervals and depths. They do not emerge from the grain or respond to the wood’s internal logic; they interrupt it. Each insertion behaves less like a structural requirement and more like an external decision imposed after the fact. These elements do not resolve instability or restore order. Instead, they create a condition of managed disruption—forces contained within the structure but never reconciled. The system holds, though unevenly, absorbing interventions that lack justification or proportion.
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