Everyday Alchemy: The Rituals and Residue of Daily Life

Everyday Alchemy is a sculptural investigation into the subtle transformations that define lived experience—how routine gestures, domestic objects, and inherited beliefs reveal the invisible labor of survival, adaptation, and self-making. These works elevate the banal to the philosophical, casting everyday items in unexpected materials—marble, bronze, soap—to probe the tension between function and symbolism, permanence and erosion, ritual and resistance.

In The Brain Wash, a stainless steel sink and a brass brain-filter literalize the process of cleansing not just the body, but the mind, linking emotional hygiene with the cycles of domestic labor. The Economy Class places a bronze soap atop a stack of dollar bills, illuminating how caretakers—especially mothers—translate scarcity into strategy, imbuing each dollar and gesture with resilience. In The Golden Gutter, gossip is sculpted as a marble urinal, its base purity undermined by the toxicity of rumor, prompting reflection on the wastefulness of idle speech.

Coarse of Life transformes astrological belief into a concrete-like soap form—mutable, impermanent, and bodily. Here, cultural rituals are not rejected but re-examined, made porous and open to reinterpretation. Towards Equilibrium reflects on physical sensation as metaphor, connecting the tactile act of ear-cleaning to the transformative experience of an MFA—one that eroded rigidity and rebalanced the self.

Together, these pieces articulate a practice rooted in material paradoxes and social observation. They treat the domestic, the habitual, and the spiritual as sites of meaning—spaces where identity is not declared, but slowly and continually carved, filtered, and worn into shape.