Cyrus Anderson is a Brooklyn-born emerging artist and designer, currently pursuing a BFA in jewelry and metal smithing at the Rhode Island School of Design, while working and designing for established jewelry studios in New York. Using wood, fine metals, steel and found objects, his practice addresses adornment with a holistic sensibility. His work questions our positionality within the built and natural environment, both as observers and as creators, transforming forgotten forms and surfaces into objects of familiarity and significance.

He brings everyday objects of adornment into conversation with opaque internal and external forces, using the body and the home as sites of investigation into that which collectively cannot be known or described in any other way than through creative action. Drawing on his multi-disciplinary background in photography, large scale metal fabrication, and woodworking, he creates one off pieces as well as production work that express his unique understanding of space and material.

A body is a space we inhabit and the spaces we inhabit are our bodies. Through my work I challenge the boundaries between body, site, and landscape by engaging with the relationships that appear between the self and the built and natural world we inhabit. Adornment is the thread that binds body and environment. It is the impulse through which we claim, care for, and cultivate relationships with the world around us. Adornment is often seen as something superficial, an embellishment to something that is already complete.

I see it instead as a profound relational act, one that reveals the body not as an isolated entity, establishing our shared ontology in a world that insists upon a discrete and isolated idea of self and being. Through jewelry, furniture, sculpture and household objects I express both a disillusionment with our societal categorization of the self as separate from its surroundings; as well as the profound freedom and joy that comes with recognizing our bodies, our objects, and our environments as participants in the same continuous act of becoming.