Presented at the Mary S. Byrd Gallery in Augusta, Georgia, Phygital Muse was supported by the Ellsworth Kelly Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, awarded in collaboration with curator Shannon Morris. Named in honor of the influential American artist Ellsworth Kelly, the award recognizes innovative contemporary artists and supports ambitious exhibitions that expand the possibilities of artistic practice.
Created at a moment when digital technologies were becoming increasingly embedded in everyday life, the exhibition explored the emergence of a new human condition—one in which physical and virtual realities are no longer separate domains, but deeply intertwined dimensions of experience.
The works combined wool fiber, mesh structures, moving image, and digital animation to create hybrid environments that existed between object and data, materiality and simulation. Rather than treating technology as an external tool, the exhibition considered it as an extension of human perception, identity, and embodiment. The sculptural forms functioned as living interfaces between body, nature, and networked systems, suggesting a future in which biological and digital realities continuously shape one another.
The title Phygital Muse refers to the convergence of the physical and the digital—a condition that increasingly defines contemporary existence. We navigate both material and virtual spaces simultaneously, forming relationships, memories, and identities across interconnected realities. The works in the exhibition sought to give tangible form to this evolving landscape, creating encounters where projected imagery appeared to inhabit physical structures and where distinctions between object, image, and environment became fluid.
Phygital Muse examined the porous boundary between human and technological systems and asked how our understanding of self might transform within an increasingly interconnected world. In this sense, Phygital Muse was both an exploration of the present and a meditation on the future of human experience.
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