LODESTAR, 2021
Photography: Daniel Terna
Lodestar, 2021, salvaged aluminum, wire mesh, air dried clay coated in epoxy resin, paint, 46 x 72 x 36 in
Someday
December 9, 2021 – January 29, 2022
Entrainment: Cameron Clayborn, Rachelle Dang, Joel Dean, Tishan Hsu, Tatsuo Ikeda, Carly Mandel, Justin Sterling, Sergio Suarez, Yi To, David Wojnarowicz
120 Walker St. #3R, New York, New York 10013
https://somedaygallery.com
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Lodestar is an elegy in sculpted form. It encourages recognizing, feeling, and knowing through intuitive and sensory experiences. I wanted to ask how issues in the world become real to us, how the felt quality of experience compels us to act. The lidded cylinder is a giant industrial version of a specimen carrying case, a vasculum. While making this sculpture, I considered reliquaries, coffers, baby cradles, decorative ironwork, and funerary objects. Through my memory of these handcrafted forms, I worked with my father, a machinist and mechanical engineer, to build a large cylinder which would enclose the trunk of a small tree. I sculpted the tree, bark, leaves, flowers, and stems by hand, without casting, so that each form or textural element encapsulates a moment of touch and a sense of time. The title of the work prompts questions about guiding forces and the possibility of new directions. Lodestar looks ahead, yearning for synchronicity and an ethics of protection and care.