N. Dia Webb ( They/ Them )

Humanity’s fascination with the mind often overlooks its fragility and the shifting boundaries that shape perception and identity. My work explores how psychological experience, shaped by cultural and technological systems, is continually reconstructed through behavior, memory, and interaction. Drawing from behavioral psychology, I examine how social expectations and personal narratives influence our understanding of mental health, selfhood, and what is considered “normal.”

Guided by posthumanist thought and its evolving conversations around consciousness, technology, and empathy, I approach the figure as both human and more-than-human—a meeting point where culture, data, and emotion intertwine. The cyborg becomes a metaphor for psychological hybridity in a world shaped by digital networks and collective memory. My sculptures, with their outlined forms and monumental presence, suggest open, permeable bodies whose boundaries are rewritten by perception, experience, and connection.

Influenced by science fiction, comic books, and gothic architecture, I create Post Human Entities that embody both vulnerability and strength. Using industrial and cast materials alongside hand-built forms, I merge the mechanical and the organic to echo the unstable borders of the mind. These hybrid figures challenge fixed ideas about wholeness—crossing between the organic and artificial, the rational and emotional, the well and the unwell. They propose identity as fluid, interconnected, and continuously redefined through relation.

Through this work, I aim to confront the stigma surrounding mental health and expand how we understand identity—as something shared yet distinct, shaped by empathy, difference, and interdependence. The sculptures invite viewers to see themselves as part of a networked condition—one where our complexities, adaptations, and contradictions are not flaws to overcome, but signs of an evolving consciousness.

N. Dia Webb is a sculptor whose work explores the intersection of posthuman theory and materiality through large-scale ceramic and mixed-media forms that merge the mechanical and the sacred. Drawing from both digital fabrication and traditional craft, Webb examines how technology reshapes human identity, emotion, and myth. Her work has been featured in notable exhibitions including To the Saints of My Sanity at ARC Gallery (Chicago), Machina Sacra at the University of North Georgia’s Oconee Campus Art Gallery, and the Graduate Student Biennial: Focus on Whitman at The Clay Studio (Philadelphia). Additional exhibitions include The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kai-Lin Art Gallery, The Clay Center of New Orleans, and Swan Coach House Gallery.