Salad

2025

Paper pulp and wire

Various dimensions

Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Nov 6, 2025 - Jan 30, 2026

Reception: Thursday, Nov 6, 4-6 pm
Open to the public

Gallery hours: M-F, 10-4

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Consisting of around 30 mobiles from my projects since 2021, this installation combines fresh greens, crisp yellows, and juicy oranges into an appetizing mix to refresh the senses. The color elements bounce and turn while balanced by wires, responding to the changing air currents created by the movement of people through the space.

Initially, I made hanging sculptures with hollow ceramic spheres as a background for a dance performance. To add more elements to lightweight structures which reach wider horizontal spans, I began experimenting with other materials.  I looked for materials which convey a sense of movement and lightness, like something floating in the air or water. I also looked for unfragile materials that are easier to install, pack, and ship.

In 2020, when New York’s pandemic lockdown happened, I paused my ceramic studio work and assigned myself a hundred-day daily painting project at home. The series had iterations of layered morphed dots and grids and nets in multiple colors, many in shades of greens and pinks. When the world seemed to be on pause, this project reflected my desire for change and growth like nature’s sprouting leaves and flowers. After many experiments, the sculptures and the paintings emerged as mobiles with wires and forms made with a clay-like substance.

I make the clay material by processing used photographers’ background paper. This method retains the colors of the original paper, producing saturated colors in the final artwork. It makes a variety of textures and colors when paper pulps are combined at different stages. It makes malleable materials when wet, durable and light-weight pods when dry, and sculptures that turn with the breeze.