Infra–Site

This is my central concern: infra — below, beneath, further.

What operates under us:

below culture,

under ideas,

beyond recognition or conscious recall.

In this sculptural approach, I try to direct attention toward these underlying structures without overt symbol or narrative reference, but through space, place, and stone.

In my civic-scale work, this means placing granite — the material that has chosen me for this operation — in response to a site and its use, its history, its form.

Blocks of stone, sometimes as large as buses, selected, broken, shaped, and reassembled with attention to gravity, balance, and friction; to mass, weight, and place.

What emerges is

a place of encounter,

something to be moved through,

and perhaps returned to.

I am currently seeking sites for this practice.

Samuel Nigro, 2025