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Michael Lorsung

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  • paintings

    Painting is a strange movement from the physicality of sculptural work that I am generally engaged in. It is boundless in the sense that the laws of physics, the rules of materiality, the physical world writ-large, all ceases to matter. I have come to see painting and image making in as a way for me…

    June 29, 2025
  • mother/father

    mother/father

    I began this work in 2022 when I watched my father’s health rapidly decline.  In doing this it also made me keenly aware of the labor that my mother was doing in her role as his caretaker, while also watching her try to figure out how to balance this with her own personhood.  All of…

    June 29, 2025
  • committment/displacement

    glassware, propane, microcontroller, solenoids, air compressor, pneumatic valves, microcontroller, steel walnut, found objects54″ x 27″ x 19″2016 what is it to commit to another person? What does it mean to symbolize something? How can symbol transcend image through labor? Questions I was asking at the time that I built a machine to cast wedding bands…

    June 29, 2025
  • #asingledrop

    what happens when the cudgel of inanity is directed towards the mundane? When documentation culture eats its own tail? When novelty dwarfs substance? These were some of the questions that I had in mind when building a tool to photograph the moment of impact of a drop of water falling into a steel can, ad-nauseum…

    June 29, 2025
  • anomie

    anomie

    anomie noun an·?o·?mie ?a-n?-m?  : social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values The reforms of a ruined economy, under these conditions, brought about social anomie, desperation and poverty rather than relief and prosperity.—T. Mastnak also : personal unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideals In the face of these prevailing values,…

    June 29, 2025
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