glitter mason & sparkle practitioner
Kelsey Corby (b.1998, Pennsylvania, US) is an artist and researcher investigating flood cosmology and apocalyptic longing as power reassignment tools.
Their practice is concerned with how material excess and durational architecture makes contributions to the cumulative archive. Sparkle is employed as both ornament and weapon in a bid to reframe luxury, historical reenactment, and industrial catastrophe.
In their MA thesis The Resistance of Manyness (2025), Corby examined the durable residues left by congestive events, and has since extended this curiosity towards cumulative archival methods.
These modes operate through hoarding and depositing, duration and withdrawal - habits similarly exercised by glitter, concrete, and the sugar crystal.
Corby invites these materials in the rehearsal of justice through spectacle, the chronicling of power reclamation, and the preservation of debris’s cathartic longevity.
