Natalie Rose Eddings

This outdoor installation A Litany for Shelter by Natalie Rose Eddings situates the work within an open, shared environment where material, body, and time remain in constant exchange. Exposed to weather, light, and public presence, the installation foregrounds questions of labor, rest, and interiority, while acknowledging the power structures that shape who is seen, protected, or surveilled within built and natural spaces. The work operates as both a site of pause and a register of ongoing use, inviting viewers to encounter shelter not as a fixed condition but as a negotiated one.

Eddings’ broader practice engages materials with long histories, including metal, glass, and clay, alongside found and discarded objects. These materials are allowed to accumulate patina, oxidation, and visible traces of touch, marking time as an active force rather than a neutral backdrop. Drawing from natural systems and technologies of land and plant stewardship, her sculptures often function as vessels or enclosures that hold memory through their surfaces and forms, registering the presence of human and more-than-human bodies.

Alongside sculpture, Eddings’ image-making practice examines the authority of documents and proof, questioning how histories are constructed, remembered, and legitimized. Through direct processes such as printmaking, photography, stamping, hammering, bending, and torching, she anchors the work in literal acts of making while engaging the tension between scientific data and embodied knowledge. Repetition, patterning, and improvisation operate as methods of rumination, allowing intuitive gestures to disrupt fixed narratives.

Across these practices, Eddings understands memory as material residue and lived experience. Her work resists permanence, instead embracing accumulation, wear, and transformation as essential conditions through which bodies, labor, and time are made visible.