metallurgy.1

steel, embalming thread, printmaking paper.

2’ x 1’ each,

2021


This work explores the experience of being a disabled young person, as well as the mental and physical toll of having medical implants inside the body. Following a narrative structure with both preoperative and postoperative imagery, the metal frames represent the metal implants and the waxed cord represent post-surgical sutures. By referencing the visuals of a medical x-ray combined with metalworking and printing techniques, the work takes the abstract aspects of intense surgical procedures and combines it with the literal imagery of MRI’s and x-ray images.