ABOUT

Insight

Omar Webb is a 28-year-old sculptor and installation artist based in Austin, Texas, whose work explores the quiet intersection of nature, stillness, and human intervention. Having lived throughout different regions of Texas, Webb developed a heightened awareness of how landscapes shift under pressure, how certain plants are dismissed as invasive, disposable, or insignificant, and how nature itself is often forced into stillness or removal. At the same time, his work acknowledges that nature is not gentle by default: vines constrict to survive, plants compete for light, and movement is driven by instinct. Webb draws a parallel between these natural behaviors and human ones, suggesting that dominance, survival, interruption, and resilience are not uniquely human traits, but shared conditions of existence.

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Working primarily with organic materials such as ivy and tumbleweed, Webb transforms elements that are typically overlooked or eradicated into meditative sculptural forms. His pieces, including Tangled Silence and The Moment It Stops, preserve moments of transition, where growth is interrupted or motion is gently suspended. These moments become metaphors for the spaces humans inhabit emotionally: restraint, displacement, persistence, and pause.

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Webb’s installations often appear within domestic environments: entryways, kitchens, transitional spaces, where everyday life unfolds. By positioning these natural forms within lived spaces, his work creates a quiet confrontation between the viewer and the materials they might otherwise ignore. Through this encounter, the work asks viewers to reconsider separation: between human and nature, between control and instinct, between what is deemed valuable and what is discarded. His practice ultimately suggests that humans and the organic materials they remove share more in common than is often acknowledged, both shaped by pressure, both navigating survival, both seeking space to exist.