Shefon N. Taylor

My practice begins with fragments. Through works on paper and experimental sculpture, I build collage forms that confront nostalgia and the illusion of wholeness, holding space instead for rupture and what lingers in its aftermath.

Holding the fragment as inquiry reveals absence as a site of meaning. The public and familial archives I draw from emerge as distorted ground, where inaccuracy and omission shape what is known. Rather than repairing or reimagining history, my work engages a methodology I call archival abstraction — a way of working that treats the fragment as evidence of what resists legibility.