Shelby Head
Providence, RI
My interdisciplinary practice investigates the social and linguistic constructs that shape identity, history, and collective memory in the United States.
MessageA ruptured surface and erupting wire form a violent epicenter, as if the work itself has been struck. Three planes pierce the composition, their precision set against a chaotic scatter of figures: bodies displaced, reduced to fragments. A floral frame aestheticizes the scene, softening and enclosing the blast.
Referencing the 2026 U.S. bombing campaign in Iran, the work draws attention to how violence is framed as strategic even as civilian tolls mount. Destruction radiates outward, ordered and indiscriminate, implicating both the systems that design it and the lives it fragments.
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