Here are all slightly different versions of what I can do for the peice that would go in Prexy's Pasture. All of them have an element of interactive stress relief; some have glass or plastic you can turn, glass or plastic balls you can spin, fun textures to feel, or swings that you can also use. The other major aspect of this work is to educate the community and students about the resources available on campus and in the community, including the counseling center, DVR, DSS food resources, HDHD meetings, and more. The contact info for those resources will also be included in this piece; it would be the same as the other ideas that are under these.



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These two pieces would be located somewhere on the Prexy Pasture. I still need to find exactly where that will be. This piece is meant to relieve the stress of people by interacting with it. The other major aspect of this work is to educate the community and students about the resources available on campus and in the community, including the counseling center, DVR, DSS food resources, HDHD meetings, and more. The contact info for those resources will also be included in this piece.
I would like for both of these pieces to be interactive in some way. One would be interactive because you feel and touch the different textures, and you can spin the pieces of glass that are in the cutouts of the piece. I have also considered the peice having globe balls(glass or plastic?) in it as well.
Idea 1
Bernard Katz Glass
idea 2
This piece would be made of steel and glass sheets. Steel for the structure and glass for the color to make a comfortable place. This piece would be interactive because it would have swings hanging from it.
glass or plastic sheets to have a ton of color to brighten the light and environment. A steel frame, and some of the sheets could be metal (maybe that is where the engraving is.)
A couple of extra sketches of the same idea. The only thing that would be individualised would be the face. Name tags would be the ranks of the various employees.

All of the following ideas are about how corporations treat people. This one would be located at T-Mobile. At many corporations, we are not treated as people but as numbers and as disposable. I have a lot of stress in my day-to-day life at work because there is a lot of pressure. Pressure to get good sales, good reviews, and just overall be at the top of the company. We are constantly judged by our performance. Currently, we have daily check-ins and weekly check-ins to see if we are doing well. I personally have an extra day off, and I'm under even more pressure to perform well with my numbers, so I am still valuable. The drawing below shows that dehumanization. This image is supposed to show my coworkers and me, but is made of our stats, specifically the sales we have, if we have been late, the reviews we have, and more. Exactly how we are valued as a person at T-Mobile. I don't think that they would have hair; however, the faces would be specific and personalized.
Idea 1
This installation explores how corporate environments reduce individuals to measurable data, and how that reduction shapes identity, self-worth, and daily lived experience. The work reflects on the ways employees are evaluated through statistics—numbers that determine performance, value, and ultimately access to stability, income, and well-being. In this system, identity becomes tied to productivity. The individual is no longer seen as a whole person, but as a set of metrics to be tracked, ranked, compared, and weighed.
The sculptures are constructed from printed performance data, including statistics such as phone line sales, protection plans, customer satisfaction scores, credit card applications, and other tracked metrics. These papers represent accumulated performance over days, weeks, months, and years. The figures are carved or formed from this material, physically embodying the idea that workers are built and defined by their numbers.
Each sculpture represents an employee within a T-Mobile retail environment. While the figures wear recognizable uniforms, their identities are altered: instead of names, they are labeled by rank within the company. The sculptures feature individualized faces, suggesting personhood and specificity, but lack other identifying features such as hair. This creates a tension between individuality and anonymity; each figure is both a person and a generalized worker. This partial personalization reflects how employees are simultaneously recognized and reduced within corporate systems: visible enough to be evaluated, but not fully seen as individuals.
The installation is intended for placement in a T-Mobile retail store, with the actual workplace serving as the exhibition site. The figures represent employees who work in that specific location, reinforcing the connection between the physical environment and the systems that operate within it. By inserting these sculptural bodies into the corporate space, the work makes visible the otherwise invisible pressures of performance tracking and evaluation.
This piece examines the dehumanization of workers within corporate systems, the role of statistics in shaping identity and self-worth, and the relationship between labor, survival, and value. It considers how performance metrics impact access to income, housing, and overall well-being. Ultimately, the work questions what it means to be seen as a number, and how living within these systems affects one’s sense of self.
Idea 2/3
The following drawing shows 2 different ideas that are similar. They would take place in a corporation, such as Walmart or some sort of franchise (maybe also could be T-Mobile)
On the left, these objects would be spools of numbers. Those numbers would either represent the numbers that Walmart uses to track all of its workers. Numbers such as their picking numbers. Picking numbers is how fast one picks up the groceries that online shoppers order. These numbers on these giant spools would include the people who are fired. Fired for being late, not fast enough picking numbers, etc. Really, the idea is to show just how focused these corporations are with numbers.
The second idea is just another version of the same topic. It would be a series of people with all their stats. what their picking numbers are, hours they work, or how many times they were late or called in sick. (At Walmart, someone can only be sick or call in 5 times. You get 5 Tally Marts. Being late or leaving early counts as half a tally mark. It takes 6 months for that tally mark to disappear, and if you hit five, you are automatically fired.) On the left is another idea, people would be represented by mannequins made of meat. This work is kinda inspired by performance artist Zhang Huan, with his meat suit. The other option for the one on the right is that the mannequins represent real people, but they would have their numbers around their necks. Maybe a list or another sort of attachment to the statues. They could also be a stack of their stats, like from their idea above.