Christyn Overstake
Location: SE corner of Kimbrough Ave. & Walnut St.
This series explores the subversion of industrial production through repeated fabrication. Using welding and fabrication techniques, I create objects in industrial media that echo mass‑produced items, but each iteration deliberately deviates from perfect sameness. The process yields unpredictable forms that evolve over generations, giving rise to three lineages: column‑like abstractions of spinal columns, and the derived spheres and halos.
I’m fascinated by infinite potentiality—the idea that any object, like a living system, can follow countless evolutionary paths from a single starting point. Production is documented through productivity tracking and quality‑control records; each casting is titled with latitude and longitude coordinates, mapping the sites where I travel to create them. The furnaces that melt the metal are named, turning each piece into a metallurgical sample of the artist‑built machine that produced it.
This work features a large iron casting made from a subtractive bonded sand mold, around which the remaining steel structure was fabricated in response to the casting’s visual energy and explosive presence.
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