Olive wood (Olea europaea) with aluminum inlay.
14 lbs. 25” × 18” × 3”
Organic Resistance I stages a confrontation between living form and imposed authority. The metal stands for the ignorance of tyranny: rigid, indifferent, cruel, and convinced of its right to enter, occupy, and define the living structure around it. The wood answers with refusal. In that persistence, the work evokes the quieter mechanics of democratic survival: institutions that endure under strain, individuals who reject complicity, and communities that resist the demand to align themselves with power merely because power insists.
Organic Resistance I rejects the myth that authority is legitimate simply because it appears strong. Systems of control depend not only on coercion, but on compliance; the moment the living structure refuses alignment, the certainty of domination begins to fracture. The work proposes that corrupted authority, however rigid its surface, remains dependent on the consent of the living.
Olive wood (Olea europaea) with aluminum inlay.
14 lbs. 25” × 18” × 3”
Organic Resistance I stages a confrontation between living form and imposed authority. The metal stands for the ignorance of tyranny: rigid, indifferent, cruel, and convinced of its right to enter, occupy, and define the living structure around it. The wood answers with refusal. In that persistence, the work evokes the quieter mechanics of democratic survival: institutions that endure under strain, individuals who reject complicity, and communities that resist the demand to align themselves with power merely because power insists.
Organic Resistance I rejects the myth that authority is legitimate simply because it appears strong. Systems of control depend not only on coercion, but on compliance; the moment the living structure refuses alignment, the certainty of domination begins to fracture. The work proposes that corrupted authority, however rigid its surface, remains dependent on the consent of the living.
