Thirst

Thirst,‍

^{Commissioners Season 4 8” x 8” x 1 ¾” | Calypso Coral Select White Stone with Porcelain Inlay
A/P 1/3, Edition of 50}

^{Fabricated at Bakehouse Art Complex and KV Engineering
Sourced from Marmotech, Santo Domingo Este (Boca Chica)}

“Thirst” is a sculptural series that embeds the silhouette of a porcelain cast water bottle into fossilized coral stone, drawing together the ecological, historical, and political dimensions of water. The porcelain form replicates the SEI bottle, an object initially celebrated for its award-winning, canteen-like design, here transformed into a memorial artifact. By pressing its image into a substrate of Calypso Coral stone, quarried from the Dominican Republic and visibly marked by ancient marine life, the work collapses temporalities: modern industrial design, colonial extraction, and prehistoric reef formations converge in a single, tactile surface.

The word “thirst” is incised with subtlety, yet insistence, on one face of the stone, activating both literal and metaphorical registers of need, absence, and survival. Thirst becomes a condition of the body, but also of memory, of longing, of dispossession. The ceramic bottle is not full but fossilized, suggesting water as a resource that is no longer freely available but entombed, commodified, and aestheticized.