25 in x 27 in x 5 in, 2026
Found wood, mechanical components, LED light, electronics

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This work begins with a fragment of wood found in nature—an organic material that, in astrophysical terms, may be rarer than diamonds. While diamonds form abundantly throughout the universe through heat and pressure, wood requires an extraordinary convergence of conditions: liquid water, oxygen, sunlight, and complex biological life. To our current knowledge, such conditions exist only on Earth.

From this rare remnant of living matter emerge two mechanically blooming flowers illuminated by artificial light. Their motion is delicate, even beautiful, yet unmistakably synthetic. The work stages a quiet tension between biological life and technological reproduction.

Wood has long been foundational to human civilization—sheltering homes, supporting ecosystems, and sustaining planetary cycles. Yet the same species that depends on forests is rapidly accelerating their destruction through extraction, climate change, and waste.

The sculpture asks whether technological ingenuity can truly replace the ecological systems that sustain us—or whether we are approaching a future in which machines continue to bloom while the living forests that once produced wood disappear.