About

Leah Aegerter is a sculptor working with a combination of digital fabrication techniques and traditional processes in paper and wood to investigate her relationship to geology and deep time. After receiving a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017, Leah moved to the Colorado Rockies where she spent nearly a decade exploring the mountains and deserts of the Southwest on foot and raft. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Studio Art at Arizona State University.

mail: leahaegerter@gmail.com
instagram: @leahaegerter

Artist Statement

My sculptures are abstractions of moments I experience in the landscape. Attracted to rocks as entities whose transformative nature codes them with life, I explore what it means to build emotional intimacy with them. As I travel through the natural world, I document geological textures through 3D scanning and then use digital fabrication techniques to reproduce the rocks in new materials such as wood and paper. I balance these translations with crafted forms, marrying the land and the hand as I expand upon the rock’s natural life cycle and envision fragments of future landscapes.

Geology documents the histories and impressions of its countless lives. When we look at rocks, we glimpse the past while experiencing a current state of being.  In an exchange of knowledge with the land, I fossilize my own moments of the physical and emotional human experience as tactile, geological representations. My sculptures help me confront what it means to be human in these animate landscapes that collapse deep time into the present moment.