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KEKER, VAN NEST, & PETERS LLP; SAN FRANCISCO, CA.
2019 · 8’ × 12’ × 10’ 6” · Nails, powder coat.
Reconnected asks us to reconsider how we assign value to the ordinary and overlooked. Constructed from thousands of seemingly insignificant nails, the sculpture transforms a familiar material into an immersive environment, revealing its unexpected complexity, strength, and potential. What is often dismissed as mundane becomes something impossible to overlook, inviting us to question the systems that determine what, and who, is considered worthy of attention.
The work draws a parallel between overlooked objects and overlooked people, suggesting that worth is not inherent, but often imposed. Through transformation, Reconnected considers resilience, connection, and the possibility of seeing what has been dismissed with greater care. The sculpture becomes both a physical and emotional landscape, asking us to look again at the things, and people, we have been taught not to see.
Reconnected
2019 COMMISSION. KEKER, VAN NEST, & PETERS LLP; SAN FRANCISCO, CA. NAILS, POWDER COAT.
Reconnected strives to challenge an individual’s concept of perception and provokes a viewer to reconsider the complexity in that which seems mundane, The work suggests an alternate attitude towards what they consider to be inconsequential and triggers a realization of the infinite potential that can be found in anything, if only they were to take another look. Enticing a newfound understanding of that which has been undervalued, the viewer begins to appreciate the notion that something, or possibly someone, is much greater than the limitations society has characterized them by.
Nails are so simple, yet hold such detrimental value, as they begin the basis of any foundation and exemplify the literal definition of connection. The epitome of a homogeneous and profoundly distinctive shape, The homogeneous merge of this distinctively shaped object then results in a complete metamorphosis from worthless matter into an empowering statement of unification.