The Stele

By 2025 I was no longer interested in keeping AR as something you hold. I moved it into sculpture.

AR Stele Prototype 1 came out of my thinking about the stele as a historical form — a marker, a record carved into material meant to endure. Ancient cultures used steles to document laws, victories, and lineages. They are among the oldest forms of public memory we have.

But I don’t make silent objects.

With this piece, the sculpture becomes a trigger point. You encounter it physically — weight, material, presence. But when you activate it, it speaks. It holds context. It holds history. It holds voices that were never formally recorded in the landscape. You are not just looking at art. You are standing in front of something that knows why it exists and is prepared to tell you.

This is where my welding practice and my AR practice became one thing, not two. The steel is the body. The AR is the voice. Neither is complete without the other.