HEYDT creates sculptural works that navigate the boundaries between physical, emotional, and virtual worlds through shadow box dioramas, found object interventions, and virtual reality installations. Her work challenges the constructs that shape our perception of objects, environments, and identities, offering alternative frameworks for understanding. Through these three practices, HEYDT engages in a poetic recontextualization, questioning the stability of origins, essences, and fixed identities. By reframing the discarded, the mundane, and the digital, she disrupts entrenched metaphysical assumptions and opens new interpretive possibilities. Whether through the tactile intimacy of a shadow box, the reinvention of a found object, or the immersive potential of virtual reality, HEYDT’s work invites viewers to reconsider their perceptions and embrace the transformative power of reimagination.
HEYDT’s found object interventions reimagine discarded consumer goods, challenging notions of utility, value, and cultural significance. Through bricolage, she disrupts their prescribed meanings, subverting normalized contexts and exposing the instability of cultural constructs. Her playful yet critical practice invites viewers to reconsider what society deems worthless or obsolete.
HEYDT pushes the exploration of constructed realities into the digital sphere. Using emerging technologies, she crafts parallel worlds that blur the boundaries between the material and the immaterial. These immersive environments invite viewers to inhabit spaces where perception and interaction are redefined, provoking reflection on the nature of existence and the transformative potential of technology.
HEYDT constructs intimate, miniature worlds that evoke the poetic sensibilities of Joseph Cornell. Using fragments of discarded everyday items, she arranges intricate landscapes that invite introspection and spark questions about identity, memory, and value. These dioramas act as self-contained universes where the mundane transforms, and the boundaries between imagination and materiality dissolve.