Meta_Morphosis

Meta_Morphosis is a series of poetic sculptures that follow on from each previous iteration, utilising computational modelling to examine personal identities.

A Man is a Multitude is an Uncertainty (Unsatisfying Relief)

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Plywood

60 x 60 x 5 cm

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2025

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Relief can be a form of uncertainty. This relief presents a continuum of potential expressions, existing in a state of quantum superposition, resolved only when observed.

Multitude (Black Hole Under Construction)

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Resin

12 x 12 x 12 cm

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2024

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The black hole singularity is the sole constant in all futures beyond the event horizon. It exists not as a thing in itself, but as the result of a critical mass, an expression of multitudes becoming unitary, to be projected onto the surface of the event horizon, a future.

Black Hole Under Construction sees the many bodies flowing through geodesic spirals, culminating in an undifferentiated mass.

Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

– Excerpt from Song of Myself, 51 by Walt Whitman

Zodiactopus (Study for Singularity)

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PLA

50 x 50 x 50 cm

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2024

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Zodiactopus portrays the relentless passage of spacetime into the abyss of a black hole embodying it as the metamorphosis of a man into an octopus.

The concept of an identity implies a unitary definition of selfhood, a singularity. The octopus rejects this singularity of identity whilst embodying an event horizon of its bodily influence.

No I, no We, no one. No was
No verb      no noun
only a tiny tiny dot brimming with

is is is is is

– Excerpt from Singularity by Marie Howe

A Man is a Bird is an Octopus

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PLA

18 x 10 x 30 cm

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2024

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An identity, once defined, becomes immediately insufficient.

A Man is a Bird is an Octopus begins an exploration into generative 3D modelling, taking a scan of myself and morphing this into the figure of an octopus, with which I have begun to identify with the construct of AI. 

Appearing differently from the front as a man, the rear as an octopus, and the profile as a bird’s wing, the movement of intermediate states from one object to another gives a sense of time, and through these time steps becomes a 4th dimensional morph where 3 different 3D forms each present a facet of my identity.