Robin MandelShona MacdonaldJeffery KasperCurcio, Sally2024-04-262024-04-262022-092022-0910.7275/29880945https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/32942My sculptural installations aim to elicit a sense of optimism and possibility through form, color, and mode of display. The work subverts the symbolic order by repurposing everyday forms and objects, allowing us to see the familiar as new, and thereby awakening us to what may be possible to formulate a better, more beautiful, more universally connected order.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/future worldsoptimistic worldssymbolic orderfunctional fixednessminiature worldssculptural citiesArt and DesignArt PracticeFine ArtsSculptureThesis (Open Access)https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1506-4341