Aiden Phạm ABOUT WORK

what a hand can hold

2024

air-dry clay, teabags, turmeric, tea dye

For what a hand can hold, I rework materials to hold an impression beyond their intended use. Teabags stain gold from making a tea and turmeric dye; clumps of air-dry clay retain the texture impressions of rocks. By remembering otherwise, excess and fragmented matter could recenter one another and constitute new forms. In a grid, the objects hold and ground one another, cultivating a field of reciprocity.