Exhibition and Future
Currently, I produce small-scale works designed to inhabit bookshelves and coffee-table alcoves—inviting a private dialogue.
My long-term vision is to mount large-scale installations: tributes to the novels and writers who have shaped me. In a gallery context, I imagine these works activated by pathways, light, and sound, transforming white-cube neutrality into mythic realms of narrative exploration and reimagining.
Exhibition & Scale
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Looking Forward
My next project will recast musical scores as physical landscapes, sculpted by the shapes of instruments and the waves of their sounds. Just as I map text today, tomorrow I will chart melody—inviting curators and audiences alike to wander the contours of music made visible.
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If you're looking for someone innovative, engaged and enthusiastic for your next project - consider enlisting my assistance.
I offer collaboration:
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Conceptual Depth — rigorous methods informed by literary theory, AI research, and philosophical inquiry
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Poetic Lyricism — work that resonates emotionally as well as intellectually
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Technical Innovation — a fusion of code, digital modelling, and time-honoured craft
I have great teamworking skills and have collaborated with many people on a variety of projects in the past that involved light installations, poetry tours, presentations and performance. Get in touch to have a chat about how I can help.
Invitation to Collaborators and Curators
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My Process
Narrative as Terrain
I treat each text as a living geography: mountains carved by plot twists, valleys formed by subtext, and hidden caverns of symbolism. By translating written words into sculptural form, I invite viewers to traverse these internal landscapes and discover new ways of reading.
The Invisible Made Visible
With the rise of AI, words have taken on new vector relationships—hidden connections that no longer fit on the printed page. My aim is to materialize that latent geometry, revealing the neural cartography of language and thought.
Concept & Inquiry
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Algorithmic Translation
Custom scripts analyse the structure of a source text—its rhythm, themes, semantic clusters—and distil this data into three-dimensional blueprints.
Digital Sculptural Modeling
In virtual space, I refine those blueprints into forms that echo both the microscopic logic of code and the organic irregularities of living matter.
Physical Construction
I build each piece by hand, using recycled plastics, plaster, acrylic, and found materials. The result is a tactile object that balances crisp technological rigor with the warmth of human touch.
Process & Materials
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My sculptures dwell in the flux between:
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Cryptic & Revealed — fragments of hidden knowledge made legible
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Organic & Inorganic — natural curves emerging from synthetic media
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Textual & Imaginative — the author’s original intent refracted into new poetic shapes
I love watching people lift, rotate, and peer inside my forms—each gesture a fresh act of reading and interpretation. It is in these intimate encounters that the work truly comes alive.
Themes & Experience
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TEXT
FORM
TRANSFORM
Artist's Statement
What Sets Me Apart
At the heart of my practice lies a single question: What makes a story authentic, compelling, and meaningful? I have trekked through the landscapes of the Western canon—each novel, poem, and text leaving footprints in my mind. Over time, I began to see these footprints as pathways over distinct topographies: a world built from pages, punctuated by footnotes and critical ideas as well as relational echoes. My work asks: What unseen maps lie between words and ideas, and how might we give them form?
I really believe in the written word and the power that it has to alter the way we see the world and I see a lot of ground lost in the process of translation. Too much time is spent on exactness when the spirit of the text should be the focus.
I have decided to dedicate my life to exploring the way that prose can be transformative when experiences in exciting and innovative ways.
ABOUT
JENSEN WILDER
