Echo

ECHO is hand pressed concrete mixed with St. Helen's ash that's reinforced with PVA fibers. The artist collected the ash with her family in her home town of Portland after the 1980 eruption.
This piece is a continuation of exploring the connections between evolution and creativity through building unconventional forms that push the boundaries of the material. Altering what ordinarily is the solid uniformity of concrete into casts that seem pulled, stretched, in transit. To take the stone and make it rip, blend, emote. To evolve what is normally the process of casting the wet matrix of concrete into a solid block. To discover instead a form that looks like a sound wave instead of a static obelisk. A reverberation rather than an inert constant.