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Christina Mesiti

 
I crawl onto clay slabs and cast the impressions in hydrocal, revealing the positive form of touch in imprints of fingers, knees, toes. I wrap this clawing gesture into a mobius strip, one continuous surface with no inside or outside. The sculpture becomes one continuous, muddled act of touching. The piece was cast onsite in Utah, the surface vibrating with the texture of the sandstone and lichen, integrating into the visual and tactile sense of the site.


Desert Crawling Mobius, 2024, Hydrocal















Ice Clawing Biting, 2023
I cast the moment of clawing, crawling and biting in ice. The cast was frozen overnight in the desert winter from local water. I photographed the cast as it melted in the sun. The very thing that makes it visible ultimately destroys the sculpture.

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