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Sculpture Process
Each block is made of two parts: nature, which consists of the wood interior and nurture, the plaster exterior. Nature was constructed from four pieces of plywood. I named them “A,” “C,” “G” and “T.” (“A,” “C,””G” and “T” is the alphabet of a DNA structure.) Similar to the construction of a DNA strand, I layered and laminated these pieces of wood or “letters" to form a wooden sequence; all of the strands embedded in the plaster are constructed from the same four sheets of wood revealing cloned sequences. The strands are then spaced and glued down to a melamine board. Once the strands have adhered, pre-sized caudle boards are fit and sealed to the melamine...