My practice explores the decay of technology and its impact on perception, the body, and daily life. I work with an assemblage of natural elements—branches, leaves, bones—and industrial fragments—wires, metal, scrap—to reveal their entangled relationship. In these convergences, mimicry and temporality collide, blurring the boundaries between organic and artificial, presence and absence, body and non-body, function and ruin. A wire curls like a tendril; a broken sidewalk fragment holds the weight of a body. My work examines the spaces where nature and technology meet, resist, and merge, inviting reflection on how humans disrupt and coexist with their surroundings in an interconnected world.
Finn Dugan (b. 2000) is a multidisciplinary artist who’s practice fuses digital technology, animation, found objects, biological, and industrial materials. Dugan’s work exhibited at the Tomayko Foundation, Brew House Arts, Plexus Projects, Mid-America College Artists Association (MACAA) , and Sculpture X, among others. He was awarded juror’s award from MACAA, Sculpture X, and recieved residencies from Brew House Arts (Pittsburgh, PA) and Popps Packing (Detroit, MI). Dugan graduated from Allegheny College in 2022 studying Art and Physics and is currently based in Pittsburgh, PA.