Meagan Cignoli is a queer sculptor based in Los Angeles who explores the rapid yet profound connections made through messages exchanged across seas. Inspired by words from friends, these pieces confront the deep interactions that occur in long-distance relationships. Formerly a co-founder of the creative agency Visual Country, she now focuses on a more tactile, introspective studio practice rooted in ceramics, stone, plaster, paper pulp, and glass.
“Our digital world enables us to maintain vital connections with those physically far away. By sculpting these moments into physical art, “bas relief” honors and celebrates the words and connections that have profoundly impacted and shaped my life.”
Her sculptures, ranging from bas relief text to amorphic forms; transform casual digital phrases into fragile, textured objects. These works give emotional weight to everyday messages, embracing cracks, bubbles, and imperfections as marks of vulnerability and time. This series is a love letter to long-distance connection: those small, intimate moments shared through screens, now reimagined in physical space.
