Tethered

Materials List:

• Salvaged wood tray

• Magnifying lens and metal lens housing

• Leather strap with visible stitching

• Clock gears and broken timepiece parts

• Clear tubing

• Red copper wire

• Preserved bracket fungi (possibly artistically enhanced)

• Moss

• Marbles

• Fabric or painted backing

Tethered presents a layered meditation on the boundaries between organic life and mechanical design. A central magnifying lens reveals an abstract, flame-colored image—perhaps a burning memory or a distant signal—anchored in a weathered wood backdrop. Tightly coiled tubes extend from the image like tendrils, winding through corroded clock gears and draped across clusters of preserved bracket fungi and moss. Leather, stitched into the structure like a wound or a harness, adds tension to the composition. Red wires, coiled like nervous energy, pulse silently along the base. It evokes both the intimacy and entrapment of memory, the fragility of time, and the fine line between nurture and restraint.