2024

An exploration of worth, labor, and the cycle of creation and depletion.

Nacre is a body of work formed during a period of unemployment and introspection, questioning personal value within a culture that often equates worth with production. Inspired by the life cycle of farmed oysters, organisms cultivated to produce pearls as a defensive response, then harvested, discarded, and at times returned to begin the cycle again, the work examines the tension between creation, extraction, and renewal.

Like the oyster, I began to ask what happens when we are no longer producing something deemed valuable to others.

The materials reflect this inquiry. Found objects, discarded remnants, and traces of past cycles are reassembled and transformed. Scratch-off tickets, metal studs, aluminum wire, mosquito netting, marker, door knobs, mirror, and plexiglass speak to what is left behind, reclaimed, and reshaped into something new.

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Nacre | 2024
New York School of the Arts, NYC

Nacre: Eighth in a Series of Nine was exhibited in the 2024 Sculpture Exhibition at the New York School of the Arts and HUB Galleries from April 1 to May 2, 2025.