SOFT SCULPTURES

Soft Sculptures extend the Fluid Loop from painting into three-dimensional, site-responsive form. Made from flexible PVC, these reusable forms are carried into landscapes where they are temporarily placed, activated and documented before being completely removed.

Across shorelines, rock formations, deserts and bodies of water, they can appear as organic forms, displaced matter or momentary spills — poured, leaked or washed into place. Their softness and fluidity can mimic biological and elemental forms, while their materiality introduces a deliberate contradiction: PVC is a synthetic material produced from fossil-fuel-derived feedstocks.

The works borrow the visual language of contamination without enacting it. Unlike an oil, chemical or plastic spill, which escapes containment and may leave persistent ecological consequences, these interventions are temporary and reversible. Nothing remains at the site once the work is removed; the photograph or film becomes the enduring trace.

This tension between organic appearance and petrochemical origin is central to the work. Rather than positioning Nature as pure and the synthetic as simply its opposite, the sculptures consider their increasing entanglement: extraction, transformation, material dependence, persistence and consequence.

The landscape is not a backdrop but an active collaborator. Water, wind, gravity, rock, sand and tide alter the form and determine each encounter. The work is neither controlled nor left to chance. It emerges through relationship.


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