This body of work, Material Entropy, references my manipulation of materials to accentuate their inherently corporeal qualities of vulnerability and resilience. Through the lens of abjection, these materials reveal the tension between dichotomies such as hard versus soft or internal versus external. Clay becomes a record of physical process due to its plasticity, which captures moments beyond my bodily transience. Soft sculpture challenges the stability and structure typically associated with sculpture due to its elasticity and innate amorphousness. The vulnerability of this formlessness reflects the fragility of our entropic bodies and serves as an interplay between fluctuating levels of material impermanence. In response to the abjection of mortality, these works can also be viewed through the lens of existentialism and absurdity, leading to a revolt against meaninglessness. They reference death and decay, but retain a delicate vulnerability that ultimately suggests the resilience of their existence.
