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Retrofuturistic Figures Emerge from Wood in Playful Sculptures by Aleph Geddis

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Retrofuturistic Figures Emerge from Wood in Playful Sculptures by Aleph Geddis
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Chiseled from wood, Aleph Geddis’ spindly, playful, vaguely alien wooden sculptures evoke an enigmatic tension between identity and glyph. His organic, hand-worked objects teeter between abstraction and figuration like retrofuturistic icons. The artist lives between Japan, Bali, and Orcas Island in Washington. “This split has been incredibly generative, allowing me to carry my practice with me and respond to very different environments and energies,” he tells Colossal.



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