Soil, gravel, seeds, stoneware, glaze, underglaze
Wishing Well
Curated by Jacob Rhodes & Jessica Hargreaves
Field Projects x Mother-in-laws Gallery
Germantown, New York
Photographer: Anahit Pogosian
American Stoneware clay, glaze.
Presented as part of Wishing Well, a three-month outdoor sculpture exhibition, the installation evolved through both intentional cultivation and natural processes. Seeds introduced to the site grew alongside vegetation that emerged through dispersal by birds and wind, gradually transforming the sculptural landscape.
As tall grasses flourished, partially obscuring and, in some areas, completely engulfing the coral-like formations, the artist returned periodically to shape and braid the vegetation, revealing and redefining the work as it evolved.
This ongoing exchange between artistic intervention and spontaneous growth transformed the landscape into both collaborator and material. Through cycles of emergence, concealment, and transformation, Coral Gardens: Earthworkexplores the fluid boundaries between land and sea, cultivation and wilderness, and the relationship between human care and ecological processes.
gallery & exhibition, sculpture, photography,