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Through sculpture and installation, I explore themes of duality, memory, and the preservation of time. My work is built from cast fragments of the human body and domestic architecture, using life size forms to preserve and reinterpret the intimate details of lived spaces. These fragments act as vessels for memory, holding what is both fleeting and enduring. The casting process itself mirrors memory, preserving a moment in time while leaving behind a void, creating a simultaneous sense of presence and absence. I am drawn to moments of transition and to in between spaces, such as doors, drains, skin, and other thresholds where boundaries blur and certainty softens. These spaces become metaphors for the relationship between interior and exterior worlds, and between the physical and the psychological. This interest is deeply informed by my experience with episodic sleep paralysis, a state between sleeping and waking where the real becomes entangled with the imagined. Like memory, these experiences exist in an unstable space between reality and perception. In my sculptures and installations, familiar forms are transformed into objects that feel both known and uncanny, inviting viewers to consider how memory, perception, and lived experience shape our sense of self and our relationship to the spaces we inhabit.

 © 2025 by Hanna Newman 

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