Gwen 🦋🌸
@theydybug.bsky.social
Cast iron sculptor, bell maker, botanist, triplet
cast iron, low-fire clay, vermiculite, coconut coir, steel hardware
February 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
cast iron, low-fire clay, vermiculite, coconut coir, steel hardware
A set of my sand molds being poured in iron - each mold contains a cavity shaped after a component of an articulated dressmaker’s form, with the molten iron taking the shape of the original component.
This long-term project is an ongoing goal of my three year residency at Sloss Metal Arts.
This long-term project is an ongoing goal of my three year residency at Sloss Metal Arts.
January 28, 2025 at 4:57 AM
A set of my sand molds being poured in iron - each mold contains a cavity shaped after a component of an articulated dressmaker’s form, with the molten iron taking the shape of the original component.
This long-term project is an ongoing goal of my three year residency at Sloss Metal Arts.
This long-term project is an ongoing goal of my three year residency at Sloss Metal Arts.
WIP at Sloss Furnaces National Landmark
January 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
WIP at Sloss Furnaces National Landmark
Works in progress at Sloss Furnaces: a series of dressmaker’s forms, modified and cast in iron to emulate the perforated flasks used in historical bronze bell-making to contain the clay mold.
January 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Works in progress at Sloss Furnaces: a series of dressmaker’s forms, modified and cast in iron to emulate the perforated flasks used in historical bronze bell-making to contain the clay mold.
Sanitary·Standard, 2023, cast bronze & battery pump
This eye wash station imagines a world where implicit biases can be absolved in a brief act of public ablution.
from my MFA thesis “Operating Assumptions” at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
This eye wash station imagines a world where implicit biases can be absolved in a brief act of public ablution.
from my MFA thesis “Operating Assumptions” at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
January 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Sanitary·Standard, 2023, cast bronze & battery pump
This eye wash station imagines a world where implicit biases can be absolved in a brief act of public ablution.
from my MFA thesis “Operating Assumptions” at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
This eye wash station imagines a world where implicit biases can be absolved in a brief act of public ablution.
from my MFA thesis “Operating Assumptions” at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
Capacity 1, 2022, cast iron & steel
Capacity 1 challenges preconceptions of gender as amalgamations of abstract barriers - simultaneously protective and claustrophobic - that impede personal growth and vulnerability.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
Capacity 1 challenges preconceptions of gender as amalgamations of abstract barriers - simultaneously protective and claustrophobic - that impede personal growth and vulnerability.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
January 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Capacity 1, 2022, cast iron & steel
Capacity 1 challenges preconceptions of gender as amalgamations of abstract barriers - simultaneously protective and claustrophobic - that impede personal growth and vulnerability.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
Capacity 1 challenges preconceptions of gender as amalgamations of abstract barriers - simultaneously protective and claustrophobic - that impede personal growth and vulnerability.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
Gwen L Kelling, Oil Change, 2022, cast iron, motor oil & found objects
This piece likens my weekly estrodiol shot, a sesame oil suspension administered by my partner Ayla, to routine automotive maintenance.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
This piece likens my weekly estrodiol shot, a sesame oil suspension administered by my partner Ayla, to routine automotive maintenance.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
January 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Gwen L Kelling, Oil Change, 2022, cast iron, motor oil & found objects
This piece likens my weekly estrodiol shot, a sesame oil suspension administered by my partner Ayla, to routine automotive maintenance.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
This piece likens my weekly estrodiol shot, a sesame oil suspension administered by my partner Ayla, to routine automotive maintenance.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University’s Surplus Gallery, March 2024
Gwen L Kelling, Cure Time, 2021, bronze, steel and found objects
This sculpture incorporates a cobbler’s anvil to visualize the dichotomy of self-expression and self-preservation as I “do my nails”.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Surplus Gallery in March 2024
This sculpture incorporates a cobbler’s anvil to visualize the dichotomy of self-expression and self-preservation as I “do my nails”.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Surplus Gallery in March 2024
January 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Gwen L Kelling, Cure Time, 2021, bronze, steel and found objects
This sculpture incorporates a cobbler’s anvil to visualize the dichotomy of self-expression and self-preservation as I “do my nails”.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Surplus Gallery in March 2024
This sculpture incorporates a cobbler’s anvil to visualize the dichotomy of self-expression and self-preservation as I “do my nails”.
from my MFA thesis at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Surplus Gallery in March 2024
putting some art on the walls of this new space 🦋
January 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
putting some art on the walls of this new space 🦋