Book2023
8’ x 8’ x 2’
used tent, used tarp, ceramic, texture pamphlet, texture calendar, cyanotype fluid, knots, grommets, hardware, coyote bite, stones, rope

Four Floods and Drawing for a City Public
2021
cedar, cast aluminum, came glasswork, wild foraged ceramic, rainwater, shadow

A faceted glass monocle attached to cast aluminum hoop sits hangs off the top of a 13-foot cedar pole in the middle of a public sculpture park in Dallas, Texas. Four handbuilt ceramic vessels whose form is something between an “X” and a flower have been embedded into the ground, serving as repositories for rainwater. Small ecologies of insects and worms are attracted to the vessels. As the vessels drain over time, they slowly water the grass around them.

This work is examines the social and environmental impacts of civic tourism in Dallas, Texas. The glass monocle is a shallow, two-dimensional rendition of the Reunion Tower in Dallas, where tourists are invited to have a cocktail at the rotating bar 561 feet in the sky inside the “Geo Deck” overlooking the Trinity Floodplain. The ceramics vessels are inspired by the Trinity Floodplain, which is a proven flood risk for the surrounding neighborhoods while also being a beacon of local biodiversity and tourism. The “X” forms references the act of geographical location, but they also reference the Made while attending Sweet Pass Sculpture School--a residency program focused on Blackland Prairie ecology.

Houston2024
18” x 24” 6”
saggar-fired handmade ceramic, custom steel hardware

Postcard
2024
video installation (single-channel video, steel, canvas, sunset)
exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, Texas.

A continuous video of the sunset at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, is projected onto the surface of a freestanding stretched canvas with a beveled interior aperture with a 4:3 aspect ratio. During the day, the video is invisible in sunlight, and the canvas frame functions as an aperature for a view of the Fort Worth Modern. As day turns to night, the view darkens, and the New Mexican sunset projected onto the canvas gradually becomes visible. Effectively, the visible subject shifts from what is being framed to the frame itself.

00.Al.20DFCP b
2023
36" x 18" x 36”
aluminum

EMILY LEE