Standing Eggs hypha-gallery-sugar-house-island The work invites reflection on

The work invites reflection on the fragmented

These are not merely things

I propose that the wound is a passage into an initiatory drama

using fragments of local plants and chalk

Standing Eggs hypha-gallery-sugar-house-island The work invites reflection onStanding Eggs' grew from the realisation that I am drifting into my father's shape. He once seemed to stand like stone; I pushed against him, resisted him, and at the same time trusted him to be fixed, knowable. Now that I am older, what I saw as stable, immovable reveals itself as layered and unresolved. This work holds an unsettled recognition of vulnerability in male figures. Depicting eggshaped testiclesmasculine and virile yet soft, nurturing and