
Caitlin Miller
SculptureI create sculptures, installations, and performances that explore the body and its dialogue with the mind. Coming to art at a time when my life felt excessive and language failed me, sculpture gave me a way to translate that chaos into form. Early works with motors, sound, and impossible objects became physical versions of my inner state—both unruly and precise.Today my practice is an evolving study of memory, intimacy, and disconnection, often grounded in personal history and identity. I work in ceramics, light, resin, photographs, and transparent imagery—materials chosen for their sensory and symbolic weight. Repetition, stacking, and architectural forms create a surreal logic, while light turns objects into spaces that feel like memory: familiar yet disorienting. Much of my work invites reflection and participation. Ceramic bowls inscribed with recollections act as vessels of memory; sculptural lamps blur function and atmosphere, turning light into intimacy. Installations map out spaces for viewers to move through and inhabit, echoing the shifting landscapes of body and mind. At its core, my work asks how memory lives in the body—how trauma, resilience, and identity are carried, stored, and passed on. I often return to the quiet woods of Vermont, grounding this inquiry in clay. My practice transforms fleeting experience into form, illuminating the connections between self, community, and environment.
I am a multidisciplinary artist who creates sculptures, installations and performances that use and reference the body as it relates to issues within our culture and the environment. My interests are in exploring intimacy and connectiveness, especially with machines interacting and consuming humans in a technological digitized world. In creating this work, I investigate how the more fragile organic materials interact with machine-made materials which are designed to be perfect, a critical look at how the future might look and also an examination of the future femme. As such, the work intentionally takes up space physically and emotionally. I often take photographs before making my work and using transparent images along with ceramics, light, resin, and pipes/tubes will create the work. I glue, screw, climb ladders, saw wood and use a pressure tank for resin pieces - often connecting the pieces together by any means necessary. I utilize architecture and light to include emotional spaces. My work is often built with blocks, repeating objects with a sense of creating a unique surreal place. By design the sculptures are complicated as I layer multiple ideas or images through stacking, hanging, and compressing. Mirroring what I see around me, I use transparent materials as a way of revealing and reflecting. I'm interested in the stories of people around me and so I want to see you reflected through the work. When creating with clay, I return to moments in the Vermont woods and now use ceramics as a way to coalesce memory with permanent materials. The vessels, the object, become the means to whisper past lives, both for you and me. Concepts of memory and time carry through all my work, including body memory and trauma-based memory. I make physical manifestations of our bodies which carry history and emotion from generation to generation. I translate our sense of identity, our feelings of inadequacy into an object that you can walk around, manipulating and re-organizing as a means to continually squeeze out new means of seeing and remembering.











