Clyde Corley
Do civilizations dream themselves into form? My practice considers sculpture as a living archive where memory, mythology, and inherited forms accumulate within the body.
Archived information is stored in the body. Process as Product.
Through fragmented figures that draw equally from classical sculpture, the natural world and some other arrival, I create objects that occupy a threshold between emergence and erosion, familiarity and transformation.
An object experiencing a state. Shape and form predate language. Birds, stone, landscape, and anatomy become part of the same evolving language, bringing nature indoors as an expression of the totality of the living world.
Rather than describing a single narrative, each work invites multiple readings, much like a myth that changes with every generation. The work feels less like inventions than discoveries-artifacts from a world that is still becoming.
Born 1992, Los Angeles.