Woodblock Carving, 24 × 36 in

“This Will All Disappear Someday” is a woodblock carving created during a stretch of days where I worked with a playlist looping in the background — songs that lift me up, spark emotion, push me forward, or just make me say “hell yea.” There was no theme or curation to the music; it was simply what I needed in that moment. As I carved, the rhythm and energy of those tracks naturally worked their way into the shapes, the cuts, and the flow of the piece.

The block takes the form of a vertical cassette tape. It is a nod to the ways we used to hold onto music, and how something as simple as a mix could become a container for a feeling, a time, a version of ourselves. Today, we save our music differently, so a single scannable code is carved into the block as a marker of the present. It’s a reminder that even our most meaningful formats are temporary: cassettes fade, playlists change, technology moves on.

Around the cassette, floral and vein-like carvings echo both natural growth and the branching pathways of a pulse. These forms reflect the internal experience of listening - the way music travels through the body, the way it shapes mood and movement, the way it wakes up something that’s hard to name but easy to feel.

This piece is, at its core, a time capsule.

A record of the music that fueled me.

A moment in my creative life.

A snapshot of how things sounded and felt while I was making it.

And like everything — the songs, the formats, the feelings — it’ll eventually shift into something else. But this block holds the version of that moment that mattered while it lasted.