Dylan Gomez is a multidisciplinary sculptor whose practice engages directly with the shifting environment through low-tech, material-based processes that invite collaboration with the land and sea. Working with copper sheeting, volcanic stone, cement, wood, and tidal patterns, he records and amplifies nature’s forms and ecological processes to convey their presence within human-dominated spaces.

Growing up in Hawai‘i, between Honolulu and Kāne‘ohe/Kahaluʻu, has deeply informed Dylan’s understanding of place. He has witnessed the contrast between urban, human-dominated spaces and areas that continue to coexist with nature—an awareness that shapes both his material choices and his approach to making. As a Mexican American artist living in Hawai‘i, he navigates his position as a settler by approaching the land with care, listening, and respect—striving to nurture connection rather than extraction. Rooted in biocentrism and spiritual ecology, his work positions him as a mediator between human and nonhuman worlds, offering new ways to see, feel, and engage with the living forces that shape us.

“When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.”
—Thích Nhất Hạnh