what remains of us
2026
What Remains of Us is a series of resin boulders I created through repeated cycles of rupture and repair. Each boulder encases a blue monochrome photograph of someone who once shaped my life. The work began as a way to honor past friendships and reflect on the effort it takes to rebuild them, as well as the imprint they leave behind.
As I developed the pieces, the process resisted control. Working in winter conditions with unstable, expired resin, the forms leaked, shifted, and refused clean resolution. My initial intention was to fracture the surface and seamlessly seal it, allowing the breaks to remain visible but contained. Instead, I found myself repeatedly intervening to stabilize the work. I poured additional layers, wrapped the forms in plastic, and eventually melted recycled plastic over the surface to seal persistent leaks.
This process did not restore the objects but exposed their instability. The act of making became inseparable from the subject of the work. What emerged was not a clean gesture of repair, but an ongoing negotiation with damage. The sculptures hold this tension, where each attempt to contain a rupture only reveals the conditions that produced it.
untitled boulder 1
12 x 18 x 38 cm
untitled boulder 2
8 x 17 x 23 cm
untitled boulder 3
13 x 13 x 23 cm
untitled boulder 4
16 x 14 x 34 cm
untitled boulder 5
7 x 15 x 18 cm