(Excess) Baggage
Wood, 2025
About this work
This piece is personal, but not private. It speaks to the quiet burdens many carry, masked by polished veneers, hidden in plain sight. By constructing this as an heirloom object, I’m also interrogating what we pass on, what we normalize, and what we pretend doesn’t weigh us down. (Excess) Baggage invites viewers to laugh, then look closer. It is both a love letter to the tools that keep us afloat and a gentle critique of the systems that require so much intervention just to make a life feel “normal.”
Kris Pitzer
Sculpture, mixed media, fabrication, Philadelphia
I make art that speaks to contradiction—between beauty and waste, permanence and impermanence, reverence and ruin. My practice sits at the uncomfortable intersection of ecological anxiety, personal vulnerability, and the quiet rituals of making. Whether I’m working in glass, metal, or wood, my work is driven by an urgency to confront the systems we’re complicit in—and the ones we create inside ourselves.