In When We Became We. The Wedding Story 4 of 47, Richmond native True Harrigan channels intimacy and memory through sculptural form. Created with her husband and mother to mark the occasion of her wedding, these heat-formed acrylic works were shaped directly on or between their bodies—holding the shared imprint of closeness, care, and transformation. Transparent and fluid, the forms hover between gesture and ghost, like the trace of an embrace made solid.

A recent MFA graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Harrigan often works with projection and moving image. But these pieces, presented in natural light, reveal the quiet poetry of her materials: how the surface refracts its surroundings, how the sculpture captures not just touch but the space between. In her practice, she investigates the unseen—those invisible, emotional, or metaphysical traces we leave behind. These works are not likenesses but vessels of experience. They ask: What do we impress upon each other that can’t be seen? How does presence become memory?

When We Became We is part of a larger, ongoing body of work that reflects on love, embodiment, and the indelible marks we carry from one another.