Lost & Found (2018)

“Without words, the hashtag becomes an empty frame - no longer a tool of meaning, but a symbol of lost meaning, the bare architecture of communication itself”

Lost and Found gathers 65 handmade hashtags, each cast in bronze and polished to a golden sheen. Piled together, they become a monument to the instability of language in the digital era - tokens of communication that have slipped from precision into echo.

Here, the hashtag is no longer ephemeral but heavy, sculptural, enduring. Each carries the memory of lost meanings, yet together they invite the possibility of finding new ones. The work asks: When words dissolve into noise, what forms of meaning might we reload?