Sophia Tate

While we're here, 2026

Stoneware ceramic sculptures, cast-glass marbles, sand, scrap metal, calico

What has happened in the sand? An interaction, an experience, a gathering, a meditation. Healing, grounding, escaping, imagining, playing, controlling. There is movement, there is stillness, there is chaos, there is containment, there is separation, there is connection. It is tangible, intangible, permanent, impermanent, many parts, a whole.

This installation explores the culmination of a body of work, a 'set' of sculptures intuitively made and a simple method of containing sand, as a once interactive and functional piece suspended in time and space when viewed in an exhibition context. The contained area acts as a miniature world, the figures within it as deconstructed representations of humans, the more-than-human and everything in between. Distinctions between such elements blend; sculptures retain individuality while belonging to a greater whole that aims to exist as its own ecosystem to be explored. An interaction, or the interpretation of its traces, determines the visual nature and potential narrative outcome.