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Philip DePoala

Philip DePoala makes sculpture and interactive installations that connect figurative forms, masks and questions about perception. Trained at the Woodstock School of Art and Pratt Institute, he has collaborated with EDGE Neuroscience & Art and its president Tatiana Lupashina since 2018. Together they lead Oculus, a luminous eye sculpture that explores visual perception; Burning Man’s 2022 archive credits both artists with EDGE. His 2018 project Are You My Mother?, credited with Intrepid Arts, is described as a tall steel automaton holding a humanoid infant. Bats in the Belfry, credited to DePoala with EDGE in the 2025 archive, combines a mask shrine, animated LED pathways and a participant-operated gong. These are distinct documented projects; their present locations and availability are unconfirmed.

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sculpture, interactive installation, light installation
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