05/26/2026
“Destructive Entanglement”
Enamel, copper, nickel, powdercoat, steel & corresponding photograph
From Laurel Fulton’s solo exhibition ‘You, Me, and What We Made’, now on view in the Lakeview Gallery at the Appalachian Center for Craft.
“In this body of work, I draw from natural and cosmic systems. Binary star formations, solar systems, cellular division, and sexual and asexual reproduction as models for understanding how metaphoric bodies interact and affect one another. Across these systems, bodies do not exist in isolation but in shared environments where proximity, force, and circumstance determine how they collide, merge, divide, or orbit. The circle or flattened sphere recurs as a formal structure within my work, signifying the body or bodies in the interaction. In both celestial and biological contexts, membranes and gravitational forces simultaneously protect, bind, and impose limits, enabling connection, separation, fusion and sometimes produces a new bodily format. I see these universal systems replicated in the relationships we have with one another.”
