Divided But Together (Metal Forest)

This sculptural block reads like a compressed topography of the industrial age—an abstract “city” of clustered columns whose soot-dark surface turns repetition into a kind of chant. Light skims the knotted texture, catching glints on the ridges while the deep channels between forms become shadowed streets, suggesting both shelter and confinement. The work’s insistence on modular growth evokes systems that expand beyond individual control, where accumulation becomes weight, and structure becomes a quiet allegory for endurance under pressure.