Petals

 

Petals I & II
2024
Powder-coated steel on fake grass
7 x 3 x 3 feet

Shown in the Armory Gallery, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Petals I & II
2024
Powder-coated steel on fake grass
7 x 3 x 3 feet

Shown in the Creativity and Innovation District, Blacksburg, Virginia.

 

About the Work

This pair of sculptures respond to the writing of Timothy Morton, who states:

“Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman.”

By reducing a symbol associated with both nature and femininity into something that lacks a sacred complexity, I explored semiotics in an ecofeminist context.