C-lective Curator’s Cut:

Spirit of Industry is a striking porcelain and glass sculpture that fuses the human form with the built environment, transforming the head into a vessel where architecture, infrastructure, and machinery become inseparable from identity. Within the sculpted face, miniature buildings, vehicles, and industrial fragments accumulate like a dense internal landscape, suggesting the mind as both site and system of modern production. Vivid blue glass eyes cut through the composition with an arresting clarity; the work carries an uncanny, almost sentient presence. Through its expression, the sculpture feels less like an object and more like a breathing entity shaped by the forces it represents. In positioning “industry” as both interior and embodiment, Evan Hobart asks us to consider not only our proximity to systems of labor, extraction, and progress, but also how deeply they are absorbed into the psyche itself, quietly redefining what it means to be human within their reach.