Olive wood (Olea europaea) with epoxy, brusehed aluminum & cold drawn steel inlays.
10 lbs. 20” × 10” × 3”
In Constructive Appetite, an irregular olive wood form becomes an abstracted creature caught in the act of forced ingestion. Its mouth is held open by steel rods, converting the organic body into a site of coercion rather than nourishment. A red geometric block presses into the upper cranial field like accumulated propaganda: bright, simplified, and insistently imposed. The work draws loosely from Constructivist visual language, especially the aggressive force of geometric forms entering organic or social space. Yet here the intrusion is not triumphant. The wood resists. Its grain, voids, scars, and black epoxy inclusions suggest a body already marked by pressure, damage, and memory.
Constructive Appetite asks whether imposed belief enters by persuasion, force, exhaustion, or appetite — and whether any pure speech can survive the machinery that consumes it.
Olive wood (Olea europaea) with epoxy, brusehed aluminum & cold drawn steel inlays.
10 lbs. 20” × 10” × 3”
In Constructive Appetite, an irregular olive wood form becomes an abstracted creature caught in the act of forced ingestion. Its mouth is held open by steel rods, converting the organic body into a site of coercion rather than nourishment. A red geometric block presses into the upper cranial field like accumulated propaganda: bright, simplified, and insistently imposed. The work draws loosely from Constructivist visual language, especially the aggressive force of geometric forms entering organic or social space. Yet here the intrusion is not triumphant. The wood resists. Its grain, voids, scars, and black epoxy inclusions suggest a body already marked by pressure, damage, and memory.
Constructive Appetite asks whether imposed belief enters by persuasion, force, exhaustion, or appetite — and whether any pure speech can survive the machinery that consumes it.
