Benjamin Langholz

My work focuses on creating epic-scale, interactive sculptures that allow the visitor to physically experience and engage with the emotions or states of the body that I am trying to convey. I believe that sculpture as a medium can provide a more powerful and nuanced way of communicating complex emotions and experiences than words or other traditional forms of communication. I aim to create a set of circumstances that provide the visitor with a highly immersive and sensory experience which the act of experiencing I consider to be the artwork itself rather than the visual or appearance. I see sculpture as a way to bridge the gap between the inner world of emotions and the external world of physical experience, providing a higher-resolution means of communication for feelings, that are difficult to express through more conventional means. Additionally, I believe that my sculptures collaborate with, borrow from, and request the visitor to enter a deeper conversation with the landscape, inviting visitors to reflect on their own relationship with the natural world, and encouraging them to see the environment around them in new and meaningful ways.