50 STATES
DOB: SPRING 2025
MATERIAL: WELDED STEEL
DIMENSIONS: 4.5 FT X 13FT X 0.2 FT
50 States features 50 8 x 8-inch squares with steel interventions.
The work considers unification as a collection of distinct identities held together by an imposed structure.
The piece began with an interest in infrastructure, cultural norms, and contract, and how design can establish “containment”.
The square frames act as boundaries, rigid, standardized, and
authoritative—while the welded fragments inside them push against that order.
Every square functions as its own “state”, with its own internal logic,
tension, personality, and instability. Together, they form a larger body via their “label” or perimeter that reads as unified, but never fully
resolved.
Some elements hang in balance, some feel fractured, some overlap and defy the boundaries in which they exist. Each “state” carries a different spatial charge, so the work can suggest difference without collapsing into sameness.