Ellyse Egan 2025

Abstract

The Steel Archive is the sculptural exploration of a steel box that becomes both metaphor and mirror—an object through which I investigate memory, time, and the vessel of the self. What began as the fabrication of a container expanded into a meditation on containment, reflection, and presence. By reinterpreting the box beyond its utilitarian logic, I approach it as a personal archive: a conceptual space that holds the residue of making, the traces of experience, and the relationship between body and object. In its hollow interior and polished skin, the box transforms into a device for observing how meaning is held, stored, and refracted through material form.