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The forest is both a reserved and exploited territory. It provides shelter and resources while bearing the traces of extraction and loss. Our built environments reproduce the same tensions: they offer rest, but are shaped by a logic of ownership, profit, and control. How can we evolve in a system where protection itself can harm and increase our vulnerability?
By observing our homes, we can notice the link between our dwellings and the forest. Behind our walls, hidden trees turned into beams – separating the interior from the exterior – create a structure that is both secure and constraining. Maddie McNeely brings these contradictions between architectural and natural environments into dialogue in her column sculptures, tracing lines in the wood that are equally straight and organic.
The evocation of shelter is further summoned by the brick motif. The artist has crafted over a hundred briquettes from the debris of her sculptures and found materials. Each fragment collected…
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The forest is both a reserved and exploited territory. It provides shelter and resources while bearing the traces of extraction and loss. Our built environments reproduce the same tensions: they offer rest, but are shaped by a logic of ownership, profit, and control. How can we evolve in a system where protection itself can harm and increase our vulnerability?
By observing our homes, we can notice the link between our dwellings and the forest. Behind our walls, hidden trees turned into beams – separating the interior from the exterior – create a structure that is both secure and constraining. Maddie McNeely brings these contradictions between architectural and natural environments into dialogue in her column sculptures, tracing lines in the wood that are equally straight and organic.
The evocation of shelter is further summoned by the brick motif. The artist has crafted over a hundred briquettes from the debris of her sculptures and found materials. Each fragment collected…
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