In the Works

$325.00

8.5" x 8.5" x 3"

Currently on display and available for purchase at Maine Art Collective, 9 Moulton St., Portland, ME or Contact Us to purchase.

A piece that feels like discovery mid-process, In the Works explores invention, vision, and the poetic ambiguity of incomplete machinery. Industrial elements blend with organic texture in a meditation on progress and pause.

8.5" x 8.5" x 3"

Currently on display and available for purchase at Maine Art Collective, 9 Moulton St., Portland, ME or Contact Us to purchase.

A piece that feels like discovery mid-process, In the Works explores invention, vision, and the poetic ambiguity of incomplete machinery. Industrial elements blend with organic texture in a meditation on progress and pause.

Materials List

  • Vintage camera shutter mechanism

  • Brass cogs and gears

  • Industrial metal plates with perforations

  • Lens component

  • Mixed screws and fasteners

  • Printed marbled paper

  • Wood shadow box frame

A precise yet mysterious machine emerges from a layered backdrop suggestive of stone and sky. In the Works draws the viewer into a puzzle of industrial relics—cogs, plates, lenses, and levers—evoking a narrative of invention mid-gesture. This piece captures the tension between mechanical intention and unresolved motion, as if caught in a moment of transformation or repair.