Featured in the 2025 Graduation Exhibition at
Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
It Takes a Darlin’ to Know a Darlin’
Through the process of metal casting, objects re-emerge in their final form after undergoing multiple variations of material transformation. In this installation, a pair of cast aluminum boots are linked together through the tension of a counterweight, required to steady a shifting stance. This balance is found by a Darlin’: an exemplification of selfhood, parallel to a counterpart.
To know a Darlin’ is to know one’s self.
It Takes a Darlin’ to Know a Darlin’,
cast aluminum, pulley, cigarettes, steel cable, 2025
It Takes a Darlin' to Know a Darlin' examines objects of interdependence, connection and affinity. The work engages with the complex relationships and parallels between queer identity and southern culture by embracing the iconic aesthetic of the cowpoke archetype.
Cast aluminum, 10 x 3.5 x 14" each, 2025
The lost-wax casting process:
First step was creating silicone and plaster molds, then melting and casting the wax, adding the wax gating systems, pouring and drying the plaster/silica investment casts, melting out the wax in the burnout kiln, melting and pouring the molten aluminum, demolding the investment casts, cutting off the gating systems and lastly cleaning up the aluminum casts.