A sculptural showcase featuring works by Sayma Hossain and Morgan Lugo in dialogue about the vibrancy of the Buford Highway community, unveiling alongside the Brookhaven International Festival.

Their respective sculptures, Woven Minds and Technicolor TimeScape, use color, translucency, and form to create a dynamic visual experience that shifts with the changing daylight and environment. The interplay of light and form pays tribute to the rich and evolving tapestry of community connections, and offers viewers a contemplative space amongst their natural surroundings.

Sayma Hossain

Sayma Hossain she/they (B.1992 Dhaka, Bangladesh) is a textile artist who navigates with found-objects, unorthodox quilt making, installations and tapestry weavings. Her practice revolves around repurposing textiles or once discarded items and applying traditional textiles techniques to the materials. Growing up at the cultural intersection of Bangladesh and the American South, her work reflects on highlighting labor laws in fast fashion, mental health in the South Asian diaspora and idiosyncrasies of food waste.

She received her BFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in Textile Design from Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in 2016.

She's currently based in Atlanta, GA.

Morgan Lugo

Morgan Lugo is a Sicilian/Puerto Rican sculptor from Atlanta, Georgia. Lugo's work explores the nuances of memory within the human experience. Morgan prefers to use permanent materials, such as bronze, to speak to the lasting effects of past experiences on the progression of personal growth. After healing from a brain injury, Lugo became fascinated with the physicality of memory and what a fleeting moment of personal experience might look like as it transitions into a memory. Lugo's work explores the physical instances where individual and communal memories intersect and simultaneously influence one another. Lugo explores this intersection by recreating the structural similarities between the human body and the universe. She utilizes the structural compositions of neurons in the brain and various astronomical phenomena, such as constellations. These works show how our unique perspectives, along with the cultural influences of our communities, largely shape the individuality of our own experiences within a shared space.