DANIEL CALDERON

There is much to admire about the way solid components are prefabricated, transported, and assembled into larger things. Modular elements reveal the way we build, piecing together smaller units into functioning systems of infrastructure. In my sculpture I create parts of unassembled forms that allude to prefabrication. Drawing from language associated with transportation, I contextualize the parts as logistical modules that exist somewhere between point of origin and point of consumption. This in-between state is also embodied in my use of plaster, a sculptural material which has traditionally served a provisional and intermediary role between concept and final form. By bringing attention to the prefabrication and movement of these goods, I hope to illuminate one of the underlying systems that make our society possible, and how that system relates to art-making.