Ways of Stacking is a sculptural installation composed of nearly 200 delicate cubes, each made from handmade vegetable paper. Using over 40 types of produce, including the first batch of carrot paper I ever made, these one-inch cubes are stacked into soft, teetering towers. Part sculpture, part ritual, and part play, the work explores the act of stacking as both a personal and cultural gesture.

The impulse began with a photograph of my cousin’s first birthday table, where fruits were carefully arranged in a towering pyramid as an offering of abundance and blessing. That same shape appears across many contexts: in Korean ceremonial tables, supermarket displays, Victorian sugar sculptures, and fruit carts piled high on city streets. Across cultures, the pyramid becomes a shared language of offering, celebration, and seduction.

By stacking the smallest and most fragile units into vertical forms, this work becomes a quiet act of world-building. It asks what can be built from what is ephemeral, and how small gestures might carry the weight of memory, care, and continuity.