Leah Pakpour’s sculpture emerges from a distinctly feminine approach to material, balance, and form. Her woodworking is not based on domination of the material, but on listening to it—allowing each piece of wood to suggest its own position, weight, and relationship to the whole. There is a quiet tension at the center of the work. Pakpour speaks of a desire to slow down, to rest longer, to rush less, and to experience a greater sense of freedom. That personal longing becomes structural. Individual elements are balanced before they are joined, transforming the process of construction into an act of contemplation. The resulting sculptures possess both physical tension and emotional calm. They are objects about equilibrium, but also about the human need to find it. In Pakpour’s hands, woodworking becomes less an act of building than an exploration of intuition, patience, vulnerability, and rest.
– Written by Jerome Gastaldi
Trail Chair
Spanish cedar remnants repurposed into a chair.
Platform Bed Frame
Nesting Tables
Birchwood Dog Crate
