Sculptural Installations
These works are artist-led installations created from post-consumer plastic sourced through everyday systems of use and discard. While materially collective, they are formally authored, foregrounding tension, containment, and the uneasy beauty of accumulation.
Siren is a series of sculptural works mounted on walls, suspended from ceilings, and resting on pedestals in which Outlaw assembles post-consumer plastic into compact, densely constructed forms bound by exposed steel cables. While visually vibrant and meticulously composed, the works introduce physical tension and latent danger through visible hardware, sharp edges, and suspended weight that resist comfort.
Drawing from fiber-based construction methods while deliberately disrupting their domestic and communal associations, Outlaw uses craft as a site of complication rather than reassurance. The works hover between attraction and unease, pleasure and threat. In this way, Siren reframes plastic not only as a material of excess and care, but as something unstable, persistent, and ethically unresolved.
Plastic Groove is a site-responsive installation composed of post-consumer plastic assembled into rhythmic, densely layered forms. While the sculptural elements are shown as continuously illuminated in existing documentation, the work is conceived to respond to its environment through light, sound, or movement, shifting in relation to presence, rhythm, or spatial conditions.
Through repetition, color, and compression, Plastic Groove examines accumulation as both pattern and pressure, transforming discarded material into a spatial experience that balances visual pleasure with underlying tension.
Connect is a sculptural work composed of post-consumer plastic assembled into bilateral, convergent forms that emphasize tension, compression, and relational pull. Materially related to Outlaw’s Reef installations, the work isolates a moment of convergence, drawing dispersed material into a directional, paired structure that balances formal density with spatial restraint. Through color, texture, and compression, Connect reframes accumulation as coalescence — suggesting how individual parts may orient toward shared force lines without dissolving difference.
Hello Goodbye is a site-responsive installation that examines transitions of passage and encounter through assembled plastic forms, reflecting cycles of memory, movement, and care.
Rise, sculptural installation, post-consumer plastic and steel, installation view.
