Oscar Tuazon is an artist working mainly with natural and industrial materials – such as wood, concrete, glass, steel, and piping – to create inventive objects, structures, and installations that viewers can use, occupy, or otherwise engage. Although he identifies primarily as a sculptor and his work is rooted in the history of minimalism and its strategies, Tuazon's practice occupies a position between architecture and activism, and his concern is with relationality and presence over purity in form. Responding to the specificity of the sites he works in, often in both spatial and social terms, Tuazon explores individuals' relationship to and perception of space. His work addresses preservation, functionality and livelihood questions, examining and etching alternative conceptions of public and private spaces and raising awareness of our ecosystems' fragility.