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Molting
2023 - ongoing
“Molting” is an ongoing sculptural series examining transformation, transience, and the porous boundary between organic and industrial systems. The work draws from biological processes of shedding and regeneration, using casting and electroforming to create forms that resemble skins, husks, or infrastructural remnants. Electroforming reflects natural cycles of regeneration. These objects appear caught in moments of transition. In this electrical and chemical process, on one hand, there is an erosion happening as copper particles migrate from the anode, and on the other hand a growth happens as the cathode (the sculpture) receives these particles. These natural cycles of proliferation are present in nature as well through growth and decay especially within fungi. There is something mesmerizing and tender about how the electroforming bath must be tended to everyday, almost like a surrogate pregnancy or incubation in the milky copper sulfate solution. This is reflective of a necessary on-going labor, and necessary nurture to take care of bodies, buildings and ecosystems. Through surface erosion and hybrid materiality, “Molting” frames change as a slow, embodied process, where growth is inseparable form loss, and remnants become evidence of ongoing becomings.

































































