Archive of Touch Touch of Archive

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Archive of Touch Touch of Archive is a multi-media project comprised of stone lithography prints, cast sculpture with floral arrangements, and installation made specifically for the exhibition space as a way to engage the existing architecture. Interested in the form and materiality of historic objects, these works evoke concepts of presence and absence, while referencing artifacts displaced from their “intended” place or site.

This body of work was influenced from seeing the bell-shaped stupas of Borobudur and the pedimental fragments from the Parthenon temple. These ‘objects’ led to questions about their material presence and how their intended context and sense of place had been disrupted. This became an entry point to consider the formal qualities of their intermediate moment — the vessel structure of the stupa form and the veiled materiality of the pediment statues.

The artworks in this series look to explore a sense of material memory and a visible trace of what was once there. Each work attempts to make visible the temporal process of their making and transient archive of touch.