Consentia #9 (Isostate), wool, mixed media, and concrete with glass dome, 6 × 4.5 × 4.5 inches, 2025
Part of a series of sculptures exploring ideas surrounding consent and touch, this felted wool form is meant for tactile exploration — if express permission is gained. Its weight, density, and details can best be explored by hand. In performance exhibitions this is accomplished through use of an accompanying divining tool modeled after the “Magic Eight Ball” in which answers to simple questions are provided by shaking up the liquid-filled object to see the answer inscribed on the floating cube inside. For the “Consentia” sculptures the answers vary from ‘Yes Please’ and ‘Yes’ to ‘Maybe Later,’ ‘Okay,’ ‘If You Want To,’ and ‘No.’ Audiences who wish to touch this sculpture must first ask the Consent Ball for leave to do so, and they may decide how to act if the answer is not a clear yes or no.
Consentia #9 (Isostate), wool, mixed media, and concrete with glass dome, 6 × 4.5 × 4.5 inches, 2025
Part of a series of sculptures exploring ideas surrounding consent and touch, this felted wool form is meant for tactile exploration — if express permission is gained. Its weight, density, and details can best be explored by hand. In performance exhibitions this is accomplished through use of an accompanying divining tool modeled after the “Magic Eight Ball” in which answers to simple questions are provided by shaking up the liquid-filled object to see the answer inscribed on the floating cube inside. For the “Consentia” sculptures the answers vary from ‘Yes Please’ and ‘Yes’ to ‘Maybe Later,’ ‘Okay,’ ‘If You Want To,’ and ‘No.’ Audiences who wish to touch this sculpture must first ask the Consent Ball for leave to do so, and they may decide how to act if the answer is not a clear yes or no.
