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.
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