Farmer Love (Harvest Moon)

This sculptural assemblage turns a humble hand tool into a mythic creature, where the serrated, arcing metal reads like a spine mid-strain, poised between labor and metamorphosis. Against the void-like black ground, the warm, stained wooden base becomes a kind of terrain—burnished with rust tones that suggest both use and memory—while the curled tail detail injects an almost playful menace into the otherwise utilitarian form. The composition pivots on tension: the handle juts outward as a human trace, yet the tool’s body rises and bows like an animal asserting its own will, transforming function into narrative. In this fusion of craft and apparition, the work meditates on how objects absorb our gestures until they seem to look back, animated by the residue of touch.