INTERACTIVE OBJECTS
When interaction becomes part of the artwork.

Steel Safe Sculpture
2025
Wood, plastic, steel, velvet, acrylic paint, bearings, LEDs, carbon fiber
34 x 34 x 20 in.
Interactive Sculpture

Created in collaboration with sculptor Jonathan Michael Johnson, Steel Safe Sculpture combines painting into a fully functional three-dimensional safe.

Interaction

The viewer is given access to the safe with a functional cartoon key and must decide what, if anything, belongs inside it. Placing an object within the safe assigns it a certain status by declaring it valuable enough to protect.

At the same time, the safe itself is an object of value. The sculpture is both the container and the thing being contained, collapsing the distinction between an object that holds value and an object that is valued.

Seat
2026
Baltic birch plywood
18 x 18 x 18 in & 18 x 18 x 36 in
Interactive Sculpture

At first glance, Seat appears to be a pair of empty plinths. Only upon closer inspection does the viewer notice the subtle shape of a seat carved into the lower plinth and a back carved into the taller one.

Interaction

The two forms function simultaneously as places for art and places for people. The positive space provides a surface on which an artwork can sit; the negative space creates a place for the viewer to sit.

The work quietly asks the viewer to decide whether to be an observer or a participant.

Marking the Center
2026
Baltic birch plywood, spring-loaded hinges, magnetic cabinet latches
18 x 18 x 36in
Interactive sculpture

At first glance, Marking the Center appears to be an empty plinth. Upon closer inspection, a circular panel at its center can be pushed inward, revealing a cavity within the sculpture.

Interaction

The plinth is designed to both elevate and discard. Its upper surface provides a place to display an object, while the opening at its center provides a place to make an object disappear.

The viewer decides which function to activate. By choosing, the viewer is given the power to determine an object's status: whether it should be elevated, displayed, and valued, or discarded and removed from view.

The sculpture turns an ordinary act into a question of value and status, giving the viewer control over an object's fate.

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