Monsters
We Make

This public sculpture presents a centaur assembled from welded steel and a resin cast body. In Greek culture the centaur often functioned as a pejorative figure used to describe behavior considered uncivilized, excessive, or dangerous. The work references the South Metopes of the Parthenon, where the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths stages this moral boundary in sculptural form. Installed at a moment when Black Lives Matter rightly called into question the reverence of Confederate traitors in national monuments across the American South, the sculpture considers how public monuments encode cultural judgment. Like the centaur in Greek myth, monumental figures can operate as symbols through which societies define order, violence, and belonging.

Fabricated from salvaged steel and found rebar, the sculpture was welded into an exposed skeletal armature. Curved bars form the ribs and limbs while rods and plate define the torso and extended arms. A glass face is integrated into the steel framework.