Untitled 9 (Linked Identity)

This monumental head, assembled from countless circular metal facets, turns the human face into a topography of repeating units—at once intimate in its portraiture and impersonal in its industrial skin. Light skims across the textured surface like data across a grid, softening the profile while insisting on the labor of accumulation that builds identity piece by piece. The braided sweep of hair and the poised bun introduce a classical composure, yet the material’s hard shimmer situates the figure within a contemporary ecology of manufacture, suggesting a self forged from systems, memories, and massed remnants. Set against an ordinary outdoor backdrop, the sculpture quietly elevates the everyday into a meditation on permanence, visibility, and the tensile boundary between individual presence and collective making.