Olive wood (Olea europaea) with epoxy, stainless & cold drawn steel inlays.
13 lbs. 22” × 10” × 3”
In Narcissistic, polished steel spheres punctuate an irregular olive wood slab, each surrounded by small projecting steel forms that suggest passive social actors drawn into the orbit of self-regard. These vertical elements do not cohere into structure or resistance; they appear fleeting, subordinate, and largely irrelevant beside the seductive authority of reflection. The mirrored spheres return the viewer’s image in distorted form, turning attention back upon itself and staging narcissism as a closed system of surface, control, and dependence. Black epoxy voids interrupt the wood’s richly figured grain like psychic absences, hinting at emotional depletion beneath the polished exterior. Narcissistic asks what becomes of others when they exist only as fragments within someone else’s reflected world.
Olive wood (Olea europaea) with epoxy, stainless & cold drawn steel inlays.
13 lbs. 22” × 10” × 3”
In Narcissistic, polished steel spheres punctuate an irregular olive wood slab, each surrounded by small projecting steel forms that suggest passive social actors drawn into the orbit of self-regard. These vertical elements do not cohere into structure or resistance; they appear fleeting, subordinate, and largely irrelevant beside the seductive authority of reflection. The mirrored spheres return the viewer’s image in distorted form, turning attention back upon itself and staging narcissism as a closed system of surface, control, and dependence. Black epoxy voids interrupt the wood’s richly figured grain like psychic absences, hinting at emotional depletion beneath the polished exterior. Narcissistic asks what becomes of others when they exist only as fragments within someone else’s reflected world.
