Plume, the newest body of work from Kristin Victoria Barron, represents the visionary artist’s most recent delve into the archetypal language of the subconscious. Keeping a dream journal and tirelessly working to materialize the elusive subjects of sleep, Barron finds her work waiting in the struggle to articulate the inexpressible, as though she were sculpting smoke. “I am asleep and living in a house on the indeterminate but ubiquitous waterline of dreams. I cannot tell you the name of the body of water or if it’s a body at all…” she writes, perfectly encapsulating her process and the navigation of ambiguity it requires.

This body of work carries her Jungian research beyond the mere representational. These pieces have been carefully patinated and demonstrate a textural snapshot, as though Barron has captured the ineffable atmosphere of an entirely different reality. Her sculptures speak to something greater than zoological iconography; they are as though she opened the gate of some distant farm of dreams and let a herd of creatures run through various realities, collecting the sediment of impossible worlds like a coat. 

Seamlessly assimilating functional lighting, the pieces included in Plume suggest that the light they produce does not come from waking life. It is as though they have no bulbs and no cords; that they are merely doors into the dreams of the artist, allowing light to pass from one dimension into another. 

As part of The Future Perfect’s presentation for New York design month 2025, Plume participates not only in discursive artistic expression, but in earnest self examination and growth.