“My work centers on the negation of the human body, on our relationship to the material world, and the quiet intimacy of loss. The work I've been producing is made of soil taken from my home, the forests, and beaches in my area, mixed with adhesives, and composed on wood panel with discarded clothing, mostly my own. Like seeing a single shoe on the side of the road or underwear in the middle of a forest.
Through the absence of the implied human form, the viewer is placed in a position as a spectator to something that is difficult or painful to imagine. Under what material circumstances did these artifacts wind up here? With the very ground raised to eye-level, the viewer must confront that something is most definitely wrong, and that wrongness cannot be escaped by looking away.”
— Dylan Coppola
