Surface Proxy takes medieval and classical sculptures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the RISD Museum and rebuilds them as soft objects.

A photogrammetric scan produces a rough model of the original. The model is CNC-milled in foam, and the object's photographic surface is printed onto Belgian linen and stretched over it. The result has the silhouette of a saint, or a column capital, or a terracotta amphora, but it is a fabric skin pulled over an approximation.

This is what a 3D model actually is: a picture wrapped around a hollow volume. The work simply builds it that way. The stone becomes cloth, the carving becomes an image of carving, and the museum object becomes a stand-in for itself.