I'm drawn to the spaces where things break open, where decay, endurance, and transformation intertwine. My work begins in those moments of fracture, where endings quietly give way to beginnings.
I combine everyday home-building materials (wood, plaster, and paint) with modern technologies (backlit film and embedded LED lighting) to produce dark, worn dwellings that protect small but luminous vignettes of life and imagination. Each sculptural work contains a series of glowing, recessed ‘windows’ warmly backlit, reminiscent of a fireplace. Inside each cavern resides one of more than fifty hand-drawn illustrations in ink and graphite. Among them: a mother clutching her child, utopian mountainscapes, and forms caught between ruin and regeneration.
My creative practice is shaped by the shifting terrain of family and community, by the birth of my child, deep personal loss, and the wider turbulence of the world around us. Each piece is both a question and a gesture toward possibility—a search for connection, healing, and glimpses of a gentler future.
-Ian Husting
Made possible through support from The O'Shaughnessy-Hurst Memorial Foundation
