Presenting "Detriment to not", a collection of sculptural concrete works assembled from tessellating forms.
In Detriment to not, Rick Fontenot gives physical form to the complicated ways we fit together, pull apart, hold on, and find ways forward.
We look for places to belong, for purpose, for moments of recognition that tell us we are where we ought to be. We spend much of our lives searching for the pieces, when perhaps the real meaning is the relationships we build between them.
They are built in the ways we respond to one another. Listening a little longer. Meeting in the middle without disappearing. Leaving a rough edge untouched. Reaching instead of waiting. Protecting a little wonder. Believing that what feels fractured may still be rebuilt.
Cast in concrete, the forms of this collection suggest permanence. Yet nothing here is fixed. The same forms can tell a different story simply by changing how they come together. Every possibility quietly suggests another. There is detriment to not remembering that what feels permanent may still hold another possibility.