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Stainless Steel, Collected Materials
25 in. x 31 in. x 42 in.
Additional Details: Baring Holds is a sculptural series that navigates the blurred threshold between care and coercion. Using stainless steel external fixators from my childhood surgery alongside foams—rigid, insulative, and memory-laden—I construct forms that explore the ambivalent architecture of support. These works pin, suspend, and compress, revealing how the materials themselves toggle between enabling and restricting, between therapeutic touch and structural violence. As a disabled artist, I approach these materials not to resolve tension but to hold it in place—to expose the fragile balance between repair and control. The softness of foam becomes a site for harm, memory, and holding; the surgical becomes intimate and suspect. Baring Holds reflects my ongoing inquiry into systems of correction, bodily autonomy, and the aesthetics of care, tracing how support often arrives entangled with pressure, force, and failure.