Leena O'Luu

Healing and harm can exist side by side in our bodies and experiences.

My sculptures speak in the language of ritual and craft, drawing from practices like woodworking. Each form bears the weight of process, a quiet worship, where material becomes memory and carries embedded cultural meaning.

I reconsider historical and contemporary uses of dangerous materials and methods in surface protection. These practices trace shifting societal values and expose how perceptions of what, and who, is deemed valuable continue to change.

MATERIALS LIST:

Bees wax,
Bronze,
Carbon black pigment,
Coarse salt,
Copper,
Cypress timber,
Damar resin,
Desiccated coconut,
Distilled vinegar,
Epoxy resin,
Eucalyptus dowels,
Ferro-grad iron
Frankincense,
Genuine vermillion pigment,
Grey lead pencil,
Isopropyl alcohol,
Limestone,
Linseed oil,
Marlow red wine,
Mild steel sheet + rod,
Milk powder,
Multipurpose gap filler,
Myrrh,
Odourless solvent,
Oil based enamel (cream, Brunswick green, marine blue, red oxide, black, white, golden yellow),
Quark,
Salt,
Slate black patina,
Stack lead white (old Dutch method),
Structural timber,
Tung oil,
Windshield wiper motor