Lisa Chestnut is a Marfa-based artist who creates modern-day artifacts from material found around her in the Far West Texas environment. Marfa lends itself to wandering, and while many look up and out to the horizon, Chestnut looks toward earth, gathering objects that remain from human activity and are tempered and redeposited by rain and wind. A landscape architect by training, Chestnut turns the found remnants of structures, machinery, toys, and myriad odds and ends into 3D objects that tell a visual story of the people who live in and pass through Marfa. Her sculptures are made entirely from objects found on her walks or travels around town and are hand-pressed, sculpted, or cast in her Marfa studio. Her pieces are visually striking while also conveying a tactile property through their form and components that make one want to handle and observe what it is they hold inside. Influenced by the art of Donald Judd, John Chamberlain, and other artists who have left their mark on Marfa, as well as Noah Purifoy, Chestnut creates small-scale structures that literally embody the world around her and give rise to a controlled but beautiful chaos.