Nemo Gould’s work begins with a refusal to let the world become disposable. The broken thing, the outdated thing, the object nobody has a use for anymore — in his hands, it still has more life in it.

As a kinetic assemblage sculptor, Nemo builds strange, funny, mechanical works of art (often creatures) out of found objects, discarded machines, old trophies, broken tools, lights, motors, switches, and whatever else the world has decided it no longer needs. His work feels like it crawled out of a junk drawer after midnight and taught itself how to dance. But underneath the humor and weirdness is something much more serious. Nemo is making a case for the tangible.