Ways of Stacking





Ways of Stacking, 2025, apple, basil, black radish, bok choy, bosc pear, carrot, daikon radish, French breakfast radish, golden beet, green onion, green radish, Italian eggplant, Italian ribbed zucchini, Japanese eggplant, kale, kiwi, kohlrabi, leek, lotus root, mushroom, Napa cabbage, onion skin, patty pan squash, pink radish, purple cabbage, purple radish, radicchio, red beet, rutabaga, spinach, Thai eggplant, turnip, watermelon radish, zucchini

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.
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