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Resistors, Capacitors, & Diodes 

 

Once confined to the circuitry of machines, resistors and capacitors shed their utilitarian roles and emerge as vibrant protagonists in my sculptural and two-dimensional works. These candy-colored components are reimagined not as tools of electricity, but as objects of beauty—playful, tactile, and unexpectedly expressive. Anchored in ceramic or on paper, each piece becomes a stage where technology meets artistry, and function gives way to form. In these handcrafted landscapes, digital detritus transforms into material for storytelling, inviting viewers to touch, explore, and discover the hidden poetry in our everyday electronics.

 

 

 

Plaster 

 

These sculptures delve into the tension between organic fluidity and artificial structure, using plaster and hydro-stone as primary mediums. Rather than adhering to traditional sculptural techniques, I sought to push plaster beyond its conventional role—casting it over unexpected forms or allowing it to harden mid-pour, capturing a moment of transformation. The result is a body of work that feels more like living organisms caught in motion than inert architectural material. By juxtaposing these naturalistic shapes with elements like glitter, milled wood, and plastic, I invite a dialogue between the ephemeral and the synthetic, the visceral and the built environment.

 

 

 

Drawings 

 

My mark-making spans from observational renderings to gestural linework, executed in graphite, ink, and occasionally mixed media. I gravitate toward vellum for its ethereal translucency, which invites layering, erasure, and palimpsestic depth. This surface becomes a site of excavation, echoing the spatial ambiguity and material tension found in my three-dimensional constructions.

 

Each drawing is both autonomous and interstitial—a liminal artifact that bridges the tactile and the imagined, the structural and the ephemeral. It is within this two-dimensional realm that I probe the poetics of space, material memory, and the imagination.

 

 

 

Film & Plastic 

 

Plastics are everywhere, forever, and incredibly problematic for our environment, but they also hold a particular fascination for me. These static and perfunctory materials can possess a subtle beauty that I expose through manipulation and mass accumulation. Whether a small sculpture or a room-sized installation, I subvert and transform these common synthetic materials to come alive.

 

 

 

Glass, Window Blinds, & Office Supplies 

 

From lab-grade glass sculptures that shimmer with scientific precision to receipt paper installations that cascade like ephemeral waterfalls, this collection transforms the mundane into the magnificent. Office staples—binder clips, reinforcement stickers, filing tabs—are elevated from tools of order into objects of obsession, each one reimagined as a portal to the sublime. These works challenge our perception of utility, revealing unexpected beauty in the overlooked and the everyday.​

 

 

 

Tape

 

For years, my practice engaged deeply with the materiality of tape—those ubiquitous rolls of adhesive that occupy the margins of everyday utility. Through a sustained exploration of its physical and conceptual properties, I transformed this humble medium into sculptural forms that stood as autonomous objects while simultaneously participating in larger spatial dialogues. These works, though singular in their construction, were conceived to operate collectively, coalescing into immersive installations that interrogate notions of fragility, accumulation, and the architecture of impermanence.

 

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© 2025 Mitra Fabian Art

 

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