About this piece
A standing figure — head tilted upward, a single rose held loosely at her side — Ghost of the Abandoned Bride is caught in a moment that has no end. She is still waiting. The form is built from hundreds of steel rods that radiate outward at the crown and cascade downward through the torso, tapering into the floor like a dress or a train or something dissolving into the ground.
The rods were cut, bent, and tack-welded individually, allowing the silhouette to read clearly from a distance while dissolving into pure line and negative space up close. The flower at her side — forged separately from copper — is the only resolved, finished form in the piece. Everything else is coming apart.