Submission Sculpture

Fence Rail with Grass and Branches

This work begins with a discarded piece of wood, later recognized as part of a fence rail. Once used to mark and stabilize a boundary, the rail is laid flat on the grass, displaced from its original structure. Its two connection holes are reoccupied: one by a branch fixed into the soil, the other by grass growing through from the ground.
Here, the branch appears as a previous state of the rail, before it was processed into a boundary-making tool. No longer able to function as a fence, the wood still carries the trace of order. The work considers how boundaries and rules depend on specific positions, structures, and conditions, and how their instability appears once these conditions are removed.


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Fence Rail with Grass and Branches

This work begins with a discarded piece of wood, later recognized as part of a fence rail. Once used to mark and stabilize a boundary, the rail is laid flat on the grass, displaced from its original structure. Its two connection holes are reoccupied: one by a branch fixed into the soil, the other by grass growing through from the ground.
Here, the branch appears as a previous state of the rail, before it was processed into a boundary-making tool. No longer able to function as a fence, the wood still carries the trace of order. The work considers how boundaries and rules depend on specific positions, structures, and conditions, and how their instability appears once these conditions are removed.