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Australian Red Mallee Burl and steel.
18 lbs. 21” x 12” x 5”
A rugged eucalyptus burl—formed through stress, injury, and time—serves here as a living substrate for a series of precisely machined steel inserts. The inorganic elements read like foreign bodies: neural probes, memory anchors, or speculative implants embedded within an organic host.
The work evokes the anatomy of a cybernetic organism—part grown, part engineered—where biological complexity is punctuated by inorganic intelligence. The burl’s chaotic grain suggests synaptic density, scar tissue, and adaptive growth, while the steel forms impose rigid, deliberate vectors, echoing the logic of circuitry or artificial cognition.
Rather than depicting harmony or domination, the piece suspends the viewer in ambiguity. Are these implants augmentations, invasions, or evolutionary inevitabilities? Embedded Cognition asks whether intelligence must remain organic to be alive—or whether consciousness itself is becoming a hybrid construct, forged at the boundary between nature and machine.
Australian Red Mallee Burl and steel.
18 lbs. 21” x 12” x 5”
A rugged eucalyptus burl—formed through stress, injury, and time—serves here as a living substrate for a series of precisely machined steel inserts. The inorganic elements read like foreign bodies: neural probes, memory anchors, or speculative implants embedded within an organic host.
The work evokes the anatomy of a cybernetic organism—part grown, part engineered—where biological complexity is punctuated by inorganic intelligence. The burl’s chaotic grain suggests synaptic density, scar tissue, and adaptive growth, while the steel forms impose rigid, deliberate vectors, echoing the logic of circuitry or artificial cognition.
Rather than depicting harmony or domination, the piece suspends the viewer in ambiguity. Are these implants augmentations, invasions, or evolutionary inevitabilities? Embedded Cognition asks whether intelligence must remain organic to be alive—or whether consciousness itself is becoming a hybrid construct, forged at the boundary between nature and machine.