Along 16th and 18th centuries the cabinet of curiosities, were spaces where collectors assembled objects of curiosity, art, and nature, collapsing boundaries between the personal, the exotic, and the aesthetic. Like those cabinets, my works operate as microcosms of experience, bringing together Naturalia and Artificialia, where each object embodies memory, intimacy, and poetic reflection, adding a tactile experience. Though this lens, these sculptures and objects function as contemporary “curiosities,” extending the narrative, emotive, and conceptual concerns of the photographic work into a spatial and material register. Wood, pyrite, stones, iron, ropes, acrylic mixed with thoughts and feelings becoming material residues of an experience that no longer fits within the frame. If photography is sometimes memory suspended, the object is memory you can walk around. The viewer no longer confronts a surface, but a presence. The object shifts from representation to encounter.
