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by Kris Pitzer

“I make work that speaks to contradiction—between beauty and waste, permanence and impermanence, reverence and ruin. My practice sits at the uncomfortable intersection of ecological anxiety, personal vulnerability, and the quiet rituals of making. Whether I’m working in glass, metal, or wood, my art is driven by an urgency to confront the systems we’re complicit in—and the ones we create inside ourselves. And yet, despite the heaviness, my work also holds humor, wonder, and hope. There is levity in excess, irony in reverence, and beauty in imperfection. I do not make work that offers solutions. I make work that slows people down—long enough to feel, to question, to wonder why things are the way they are and whether they have to stay that way.”