Untitled

<p><em>Untitled</em> is composed of an unusual, sphere-shaped maple burl (a tumor-like growth on a tree) that Jennifer Pastor found near the Northern California-Oregon border. Pastor worked closely with an expert logger, who sliced the 600-pound burl in half to form two thin hollow basins. The sculpture’s half-inch-thick walls both push the structural limits of the material and reveal the entangled pattern and compression of time in the wood. <em>Untitled</em> reflects Pastor’s interest in contorting “natural” forms, engaging with what she describes as “the awareness that objects make us as part of the same process by which we make them.”</p>