Mixed Media Sculpture | Cardboard, crayons, and LED

21”x15”x16”

I had the pleasure of collaborating with Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginning Charter School students, Emily, Justin, and Dakota on this project. Thanks to CopeNYC for coordinating this opportunity and making this collaboration happen. The students were invited to create a world of their own inside these boxes and then their silhouettes were cut out to invite the viewer to peer into their worlds. The box offers an invitation to explore the complexity of identity and the tense relationship between self and other. It’s a prompt to unbox our preconceptions and peer deeper into the nature of gaze, identity, and the human experience through the commodity of a cardboard box.