Degrees of Granularity, 2022
600 plus porcelain noēma, stacked without adhesives on mirrored pedestal base with motion reactive audio (sound collaboration with Shomit Barua), 36 x 96 x 16 in. Installed at form & concept and official selection for 2022 Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM.

The individual shape, weight and texture causes their edges to catch; their arrangement requires balance, and then they rest with precarious density. The noise they make when they shift is both corrosive and harmonic—sometimes their edges crack, crumble and deteriorate, other times they resonate and ring. While this sculpture exists for the moment in a delicate stasis, the inevitable rearrangement over time will grind the porcelain into dust.

image credit: Byron Flesher

image credit: Byron Flesher

image credit: Byron Flesher

Below is time-lapse footage of the installation process from an install in 2021.