Collectively 3′ h x 10’w x 7″d ; each panel is 3’h x 2’w x7″d
Beeswax mixed with damar resin and pigment; various packing materials including foams, fibers, and ranpak paper; avocado shells; leeche shells; Keurig coffee filters; rayon embroidery thread
Stretching ten feet wide and alive with motion, Rocks In My Head captures the moment winter exhales and spring rushes in. Snowmelt races over stone, moss wakes in fresh green whispers, and the land performs its annual cleansing—washing away whatever boulders we’ve been carrying between our ears.
And yet, not a single rock is real.
I built every stone from beautifully disguised imposters: packing materials, avocado shells, lychee husks, and fragments of everyday life reborn as a riverbed. I sculpted the water and moss entirely from thread and Ranpak, pulling the foam into beeswax and damar resin as if nature itself insisted on staying part of the work.
The piece unfolds across five panels. Each panel stands on its own, and any two can live together as a shifting puzzle of water and land. With a mischievous twist, the first two panels can migrate to the far right, creating a new river and a second way to read the landscape.
The work took 8.5 months to complete. It still feels like the water is moving. And if you stand quietly, you may feel the rocks roll right out of your head.
