Shay Myerson’s practice spans sculpture, installation, and performance, assembling systems of decoys, pseudo-events, and artifacts of internalized threat in which nature and artifice blur. Working with clay, metal, pigment, paint, plastics, and social choreography, she treats materials as instruments for tracking how attention, belief, and longing take form. Rooted in ecological ritual and American myth, her practice asks how communities stage both their survival and their awe, and how objects absorb the psychic weather of the conditions that shape them.

Across media, Myerson approaches form as a diagnostic tool, attuning to cultural tremors before they settle into discourse. She works within moments when objects become proxies for ontological confusion, when infrastructures of care and infrastructures of fear become indistinguishable. Within these tensions, her work traces how people orient themselves through inherited fictions, environmental pressures, and sensory logics of determinacy.