Britt Wilder Moseley

Jenesis_2024YA_ausTX, 2024

Memory Meteoroids

Student Scrap Steel, Local Weeds, UV Prints
2024-2025

Memory Meteoroids transform the waste material of an educational workshop into living constellations. Built from discarded fragments of student projects in the University of Texas metal shop, each meteoroid is welded from irregular scrap steel, suspended like an asteroid in orbit, and seeded with stubborn weeds gathered from my local environment.

The work extends my interest in how infrastructure that sustains urban life—cables, drains, industrial debris—can be both medium and metaphor. These forms emerge from the same institutional machinery that produces knowledge, only to reenter the world as poetic ruins. By introducing light, sound, and plant life, I reanimate these fragments into a new ecology, where waste becomes both memory and growth

Each sculpture has pieces of metal jutting out from the form. Printed on these shards are downloaded patterns from bus seats and hotel carpets. To me, these carpet patterns resemble microscopic imagery, making the object a diagram, showing details of the surface. The imagery is analogous to the scrap metal: ubiquitous yet forgettable patterns from the built environment.
Like other works in my practice, Memory Meteoroids explores how matter, sound, and time-based systems can reveal the porous boundaries between human and nonhuman, decay and regeneration, technological and organic. They act as sculptural analogues to my live-feed video performances, where attention and transformation unfold in real time. Here, the slow processes of oxidation, photosynthesis, and gravitational suspension become their own kind of living performance.

Joanne_2025AA_ausTX
24 x 18 x 30 in.
Student Scrap Steel, Local Weeds, Transducer, UV Prints
2024-2025

Maja_2025DA_ausTX
20 x 28 x 30 in.
Student Scrap Steel, Local Weeds, Transducer UV Prints
2025

Kate_2025BA_ausTX
12 x 18 x 18 in.
Student Scrap Steel, UV Prints
2025

Ben_2025CA_ausTX
20 x 20 x 25 in.
Student Scrap Steel, Local Weeds, Speaker, UV Prints
2025

Jenesis_2024YA_ausTX
20 x 20 x 25 in.
Student Scrap Steel, Local Weeds, Speaker, UV Prints
2025

Lydia_2025DA_ausTX
12 x 15 x 15 in.
Student Scrap Steel, UV Print
2025

Tucker_2025KA_ausTX
18 x 24 x 8 in.
Student Scrap Steel, UV Print
2025

Nathan_2025FA_ausTX
12 x 24 x 8 in.
Student Scrap Steel, UV Print
2025

Seth_2025FB_ausTX
18 x 24 x 8 in.
Student Scrap Steel, UV Print
2025

Angelina_2025KB_ausTX
18 x 30 x 4 in.
Student Scrap Steel, 3D Print, UV Print
2025

Hugo_2025KC_ausTX
10 x 12 x 1 in.
Student Scrap Steel, 3D Print, UV Print
2025

In naming the works, I borrow from NASA’s asteroid classification system, treating each piece as a registered memory—a systematic archive of place and time. These “meteoroids” suggest that matter itself holds consciousness, or at least the residue of it.

(name)_(year of discovery)(month/day)_(city(lowercase))(state/country)

ex: Nathan_2025FA_ausTX

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