Compartmentalized

Materials List:

• Wooden divided drawer tray

• Pinecones and carved wood rose forms

• Tree bark, moss, and lichen

• Sea urchin spines or quail eggs (natural spheres)

• Vintage circuit boards and resistors

• Magnifying lens and found optical glass

• Music manuscript fragments

• Wooden hoop fragment

• Upholstery tacks and mixed hardware

• Painted and distressed wood segments

A cabinet of curiosities reimagined, Compartmentalized divides memory and matter into interlocking cells, each containing its own secret terrain. A vintage wooden hoop fragment anchors the work, encircling nature’s textures—lichen, bark, pinecones, and seed pods—juxtaposed with analog circuitry and printed music. Each miniature chamber suggests an archival impulse: a longing to contain and understand complex elements of life, both organic and mechanical. This work becomes a meditation on boundaries—between human and wild, control and entropy, compartment and connection.