Casual Alien

Casual Alien - wood, metal, stone. 2021

Made from contrasting woods layered together and oriented vertically, this piece features a form balanced and growing from a Faroese basalt base.

It’s orientation denotes tension and vulnerability, and provides the viewer a dramatically changing form when viewed from different perspectives.

In botany, a plant that spontaneously appears in a foreign environment, thrives, and then disappears again is referred to as a “casual alien.”

Spontaneous success in integration is difficult to qualify, and no one can confidently say why one individual thrives in a foreign environment while another wilts and disappears.

The varying forms experienced in this piece by a rotating viewing reminds us that there are a wealth of related and sometimes invisible elements helping to create success and beauty.