Red Mallee Burl (Eucalyptus oleosa), stainless steel and epoxy inlays.
8 lbs. 22" x 13" x 1-3/4"
This sculpture reflects on the earliest conditions under which matter and life-bearing elements begin to intersect. The reclaimed wood bears the record of terrestrial time, while steel introduces a cold, inert presence associated with stellar remnants and cosmic debris.
Blue epoxy appears sparingly, infiltrating fissures and voids as a metaphor for trace water drifting through space. In astrophysical terms, water is neither abundant nor dominant in such environments; its significance lies in its improbability. Here, the epoxy does not bind or fill, but insinuates—suggesting molecules carried across vast distances, settling briefly within the aftermath of explosion.
Its restrained presence emphasizes contingency rather than cohesion. The epoxy marks points of contact between violent origin and potential continuity, where elemental remnants encounter the conditions necessary for future complexity. What remains is not evidence of life, but of possibility.
Supernova Residue No. 1 frames creation not as an immediate outcome, but as a sequence of unlikely infiltrations—where even the smallest traces of water can alter the meaning of a field of debris, shifting it from aftermath toward emergence.
Red Mallee Burl (Eucalyptus oleosa), stainless steel and epoxy inlays.
8 lbs. 22" x 13" x 1-3/4"
This sculpture reflects on the earliest conditions under which matter and life-bearing elements begin to intersect. The reclaimed wood bears the record of terrestrial time, while steel introduces a cold, inert presence associated with stellar remnants and cosmic debris.
Blue epoxy appears sparingly, infiltrating fissures and voids as a metaphor for trace water drifting through space. In astrophysical terms, water is neither abundant nor dominant in such environments; its significance lies in its improbability. Here, the epoxy does not bind or fill, but insinuates—suggesting molecules carried across vast distances, settling briefly within the aftermath of explosion.
Its restrained presence emphasizes contingency rather than cohesion. The epoxy marks points of contact between violent origin and potential continuity, where elemental remnants encounter the conditions necessary for future complexity. What remains is not evidence of life, but of possibility.
Supernova Residue No. 1 frames creation not as an immediate outcome, but as a sequence of unlikely infiltrations—where even the smallest traces of water can alter the meaning of a field of debris, shifting it from aftermath toward emergence.
