As more and more life moved online this year, Nara Park reflected on the place that sculpture holds in this new world. While much of her work investigates the dynamics between natural and fabricated materials, recent restrictions from the outside environment inspired her to finally explore her practice in the digital space. This set of images are photographs of 3D-printed sculptures of rocks and parts of Park’s own body which were first 3D scanned. By transferring the subjects back and forth between physical and digital existences, Park demonstrates that in either realm, everything is ultimately of the same substance.

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Nara Park is a sculptor and installation artist based in Washington, D.C. Park’s work investigates our relationship to the landscape we inhabit and the imprint we leave in it when we are gone. She often uses synthetic materials such as Styrofoam covered with a stone coating or Styrofoam beads dyed with acrylic paint to create three-dimensional works. Her sculptures are inspired by sacred places that can range from memorials to natural rock formations. Park holds a BFA in General Fine Arts followed by an MFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she received the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award by the International Sculpture Center and Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship. She is a recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship and the Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship. Her work has been on exhibit at numerous venues including Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, The Phillips Collection, Grounds for Sculpture, Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Her work has been featured in the Sculpture magazine, The Washington Post, and Artnet News. Her works are included in the collections of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, as well as The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.