Hannah Taylor’s work centers humor, presence, and pattern. She explores two competing impulses: an urge for care, patience, and touch as well as a craving for speed and convenience. Much of this work combines found, often throwaway materials such as ketchup packets and old sweatshirts complemented by more carefully crafted wooden and bronze containers. Working between drawing and sculpture, she pokes this impulse to organize and record. The outcome is an impulsive archive, or a collapsing archive – a simultaneous unraveling and preservation of the present moment.

Hannah holds an MFA in Sculpture and Expanded Practice from the University of New Mexico and is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

​"I piece together materials with hopes of creating adequate containers. These vessels must hold proof of both rituals and logistics. I cast objects in bronze for precision and permanence. Small objects present us with a choice: stay and look closely, or move on. Weighted metals hold imprints of blanket seams and backpack straps – evidence of care. Still, poetry and craft can fall short when faced with the additional features of daily life: overheard gossip, lottery tickets left on the gas station counter. These too are containers. The heat from a torch turns bronze molten before being poured, while the heat of a thermal printer burns text into a receipt - both provide proof. Proof of what? TBD."