totem studies

The Totem Studies begin as a family of biomorphic objects that resist a singular identity. Their forms suggest mechanical components, primitive artifacts, biological structures, toys, or an invented alphabet, while remaining deliberately ambiguous.

As autonomous sculptures, the totems are conceived as vertical assemblages of mass and void. Apertures penetrate their bodies while smaller elements attach, project, or suspend from them. Vivid color and tactile surfaces introduce a sense of play, while their upright presence gives them the character of figures, relics, or imagined artifacts. Rather than functioning as representations, the totems operate as objects of uncertain origin—familiar in their physical language but difficult to locate in time or category.

When placed together, the individual sculptures begin to form a field. Their proximity creates relationships of scale, rhythm, overlap, and void, suggesting the possibility of a larger spatial system without losing their identity as objects.