Ellen Leigh

I use discarded furniture, tablecloths, and upholstery from domestic spaces as my materials to construct sculptural work whose materiality references interior space while the form evokes the surrounding environment. I seek to create an emotional landscape that is not bound by the delineations of what belongs inside or what belongs outside, but rather to incorporate the materials in ways a child might when building their own world. Manifestations of longing and futility, the pieces reach or over grow, letting the viewer experience and imagine the everyday objects of home in an unfamiliar way.