Artist Statement
I create sculptures, installations, land-art interventions and performances informed phylosophy, science, and literature. I am interested in the physical and metaphorical entanglements between the human, the beyond-human, and the unknown. I venture into natural environments to hand-mold black aluminum foil onto boulders, branches and root systems, collecting records of the planet’s surface as one would graze a body’s: its skin, folds, wrinkles and arteries, in constant turbulent transformation arising from its pressurized core to its uppermost continental stratas, continually scarred and mending. I further convert my land-art objects by merging them with materials ranging in translucency from paper to steel, imbuing them with silence, solace and strength. Through the slow process of touch, I commune with the physical world and the elementary forces that assail and sculpt the planet, aiming to elicit awe and meditative introspection as a means to reunite with the very same mysterious cosmic forces that shape our humanhood.
Tina Lam. Cosmic Cues: Magnetoscape Cycle 1. Sculptural installation with black alumnium foil, steel wire, Japanese paper, marble. 2024. Gallery dimensions 18.4 x 22.6 x 14.5 feet. Photo Credits Andrew Schwartz.