Free Will is a visual exploration of a question philosophy and neuroscience have circled for centuries: do we actually choose?

Recent neuroscientific research suggests that our sense of agency may be a story the brain constructs after the fact — that decisions are made before we're consciously aware of making them. The sculpture gives form to that unsettling possibility through three interlocking elements:

The angel. A figure whose freedom is itself theologically contested — some traditions hold that angels have free will, others that they must do God's bidding. The ambiguity is the point.

The alien in the head. An incomprehensible force controlling thought and action from within — the embodiment of the idea that our choices may be the result of processes we can't access or understand.

The devil in the womb and the tears. These represent something the work refuses to let go of: regardless of whether free will is real, consequences are. The angel faces them either way.

I hope this work prompts you to sit with the complex interplay between free will, genetics, conditioning, and cultural norms — and what that means for how we hold ourselves and each other accountable.

46”x24”x2”: hard drive platter, motherboard, copper foil tape.