Britt Wilder Moseley

Jenesis_2024YA_ausTX, 2024

Memory Meteoroids

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

Memory Meteroroids are a series of crystalline forms welded from scrap steel at the University of Texas metal shop. I see these fragments as shards of memory, welded into volumetric forms to repair the past and process creative remnants. Like a fragment of Earth careening out into the cosmos, stubborn weeds are grown out of the sculptures as a way of seeding new life within the remains of what was left behind.

The work extends my interest in how infrastructure that sustains urban life (such as cables, drains, industrial debris) can be both medium and metaphor. These forms emerge from the same institutional machinery that produces knowledge (University of Texas, Austin), only to reenter the world as poetic ruins. By introducing light, sound (via transducers), and plant life, I reanimate this creative waste to become 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.

In naming the works, I appropriate NASA’s asteroid classification system, registering each item in a systematic archive of place and time.

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

ex: Nathan_2025FA_ausTX

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

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