Ruby Tidd 2026

Abstract

Tethering is an iterative sculpture series exploring relationships, connectivity, and impermanence through materiality, process, and abstraction. This body of work, consisting of five sculptures in total, considers emotional connection as an ever-changing, constant evolution. Utilizing natural rubber latex as a primary material, emphasis on ephemerality, impermanence, and entropy offers an outlet to consider erosion as transformation. This body of work contemplates closeness as an ongoing negotiation that takes many forms, expressed through abstraction and material transformation. This thesis is an ode to process-based making as a means of discovery of meaning. Through the gesture of wrapping as an act of embrace, these sculptures utilize repetition, seriality, and iteration as a means of expressing many different forms of tethering- offering a perspective of many conclusions and ways of being amongst each other rather than a singular resolution