The Global Citizen

The Global Citizen functions as a fragmented sculptural system built around ideas of cosmology, material transformation, and collective meaning. Composed of twelve hand-carved wooden and hammered copper elements, it is designed as a modular structure that resists a fixed reading, instead shifting between individual objecthood and a potential unified whole. Each component carries surface inscriptions—symbolic geometries, archetypal forms, and layered visual references that evoke both archaeological fragments and speculative cosmologies. At its core, the work operates through the tension between dispersion and assembly. In its separated state, the elements feel like isolated artifacts, as if recovered from an unknown or future civilization; when conceptually reassembled into a dodecahedron, they suggest an underlying order governed by mathematical and philosophical harmony. The use of copper and wood reinforces this duality: copper introduces industrial weight and permanence, while carved wood adds a more tactile, human scale, grounding the otherwise cosmic ambition of the structure.

Rather than presenting a singular narrative, the work constructs a system of partial truths. Meaning emerges not from any individual panel but from the relationships between them, where repetition, variation, and spatial adjacency create a shifting logic. In this sense, the piece behaves less like a traditional sculpture and more like an open-ended structure—one that invites reconstruction, misalignment, and reinterpretation as essential parts of its identity.