SCOTTIE BURGESS

Works
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Free-Dumb

Size: 30’ x 25' x 16'
Materials: Shoppoing Carts, plastic bindings, and bamboo
Completed: 2026

Poems at the End of Our World

Size: 13’ x 8' x 5'
Materials: Cardboard
Completed: 2025

Defunct Edifice

Size: Variable
Materials:
Wood pallets, bamboo, 3D printed PLA, cotton & magnet cassette tape. 
Completed: 2025

Somewhere Between Intimacy and a Hole

Size: 45” x 45”' x 3'
Materials: Magenta flock and duct tape on wood
Completed: 2023

Nutrient Dense

Size: 7' x 2' x 2'
Materials:
Silverware, dental floss, table salt and light projection. 
Completed: 2024

What’s Seen Resilient Above Ground

Size: 7' x 5' x 1.5'
Materials: Polystyrene & acrylic paint
Completed: 2024

Burnt Vessel

Size: 1' x 1.5' x 8"
Materials: Cast Iron
Completed: 2024

Loaded Logo

Materials: Motion Graphic
Completed: 2021

Brand Power (Installation View)

Materials: Polystyrene & paint
Size: 12' x 24' x 12'
Completed: 2021

Distortions of James Webb Photograph

Materials: Projection
Completed: 2023

Celestial Static

Materials: Fiber
Size: 5' x 6' x 3"
Completed: 2023

Cause to Become

Materials: Expanded Polystyrene & latex paint
Size: 9.5' x 3' x 3' 
Completed: 2020

+Umbra

Materials: Procjetion of motion graphics
Size: Variable  
Completed: 2022

+Umbra

Materials: Motion Graphics Projection
Size: Variable 
Completed: 2022

Superior Gems (1)

Materials: Bronze & glass
Size: Variable 
Completed: 2021

Superior Gems (4)

Materials: Bronze & glass
Size: Variable 
Completed: 2021

Light of Hand

Materials: Projection of hand, sand & metal
Size: Variable  
Completed: 2023

Passing Through

Materials: Wood, cotton & twine
Size: 12' x 24' x 12'
Completed: 2020

Gonzo

Materials: Twine & silicone rubber
Size: 6' x 9' x 9"
Completed: 2019

Substratum

Materials: Twine & carpet padding
Size: 10'4" x 5'4" x 11"
Completed: 2019

AMoA Biennial Installation View

Materials: Mixed
Size: Variable
Completed: 2019

Sources of Power

Materials: Paper & staples
Size: 8' x 6' x 8'
Completed: 2021

Super Power Objects

Materials: Cast iron, wood, tar, staples and silicon carbide
Size: 8' x 6' x 8'
Completed: 2021

Sky Vessel  

Materials: Cast iron, upcycled dead tree & paint
Size: 50' x 12' x 12'
Completed: 2021

The Chances of All This

Materials: Graphite, paper, upholstery needles & twine
Size: 9' x 8' x 2'
Completed: 2018

Traced Cavity

Materials: Cotton & twine
Size: 48" x 64" x 8"
Completed: 2020

Sundile

Materials: Twine & wood
Size: 70" x 36" x 8"
Completed: 2020

Filters (Installation View

Materials: Twine and mixed media
Size: Variable
Completed: 2020

Under Current

Materials: Twine
Size: 41" x 41" x 8"
Completed: 2020

Unearthed Screen

Materials: Twine & mixed media
Size: 53" x 53" x 9"
Completed: 2020

Abounding Veil

Materials: Twine, tar & silicon carbide
Size: 76" x 42" x 24"
Completed: 2020

Surface Tension

Materials: Polyurethane resin & rope
Size: 12.5" x 9" x 9"
Completed: 2016

Ties Forward

Materials: Railroad ties & latex paint
Size: 12.5' x 9' x 9'
Completed: 2016

Civic Treasures

Materials: Aluminum bronze & pavement tape
Size: Variable
Completed: 2016

Civic Treasures

Materials: Aluminum bronze & pavement tape
Size: Variable
Completed: 2016

Weight of our Doors

Materials: Beetle Kill Pine
Size: 8' x 7' x 4'
Completed: 2016





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Nothing is ever still. As the world unfolds, sculpture and installation become constellations of materials, histories, relationships, and processes through which meaning unfolds. Rather than resolving uncertainty, they cultivate presence and belief in an imagined future while meaning continually shifts as it takes shape. Materials are not inert; they respond, accumulate significance, and orient experience. From this dialogue, understanding emerges through participation rather than intellectual understanding alone. Assemblage recognizes how materials, people, environments, and cultural systems continually shape and transform one another. Form is the condensation of what is felt and encountered into something perceptible. Through gesture, experimentation, and material dialogue, making becomes a way to translate the human condition, guided by sensitivity and intuition as it reaches toward the ineffable, feeling along the edges of what can never be fully known.