2021
2026

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Etienne Bergstrom

Etienne Bergstrom

Pratt Institute

David Calugaru

David Calugaru

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

2021
2026

Untitled

Etienne Bergstrom

Pratt Institute

David Calugaru

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

2021
2026

Untitled

Etienne Bergstrom

Pratt Institute

David Calugaru

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Everything Old Is New Again comes from my experience of living in a constant loop where nothing ever fully disappears; it just comes back in a different form. As a young sculptor navigating identity, intimacy, and image in a digital environment, I feel caught between what is natural and what is constructed. This piece reflects that tension. The material mimics flesh, which is soft, translucent, almost bodily-but it's entirely synthetic. That contradiction mirrors how intimacy and identity can feel now: real yet mediated; physical yet shaped by repetition and expectation. The forms fold in on themselves, repeat, and accumulate without a clear beginning or end, echoing cycles of desire, hookup culture, and the pressure of immediacy, in which experiences are constantly consumed, replaced, and re-performed. There's no empty space here. Everything is filled, layered, and compressed, like a surface that can't stop producing. In that way, the work becomes a kind of record of habits, of impulses, of a body navigating systems that are both liberating and overwhelming. What once felt new quickly becomes routine, and what is routine starts to feel inevitable. In this piece, "old" doesn't disappear-it lingers, mutates, and resurfaces. The work asks whether anything is truly new, or if we are just continuously reshaping the same forms, the same desires, and the same selves.

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