Jesse Woolston

The Still White Collapse, where construction meets creation, and the work takes its final form. From steel and simulation to paint, motion, and light, the sculpture is installed and brought to life with precision, structure, and nature in perfect tension.

Special thanks to Autodesk for helping produce this behind-the-scenes film, and for bringing the vision to life acting as the backbone for the engineering and fabrication design, through the ongoing use of Autodesk Maya.

The Still White Collapse, where art, engineering, and nature converge to embody the beauty and peril of Piha Beach, New Zealand. From sketch to fabrication models, to simulation, stainless steel, and heavy body impasto, every plate, weld, bend, and brushed surface, shaped to capture the moment structure moves into motion, and motion into human expression.

Special thanks to who made this possible, enabling me to create a behind the scenes look at my sculptural process, and by using Autodesk Maya to make fine art engineering and fabrication feats possible.

The Tempest, Unveiling my next simulation model.

The culmination of five months of precise construction, The Tempest unites art and natural phenomena into a confrontation of the Sublime, the meeting of awe and terror, beauty and destruction. Asking the question: what does it mean to stand before nature in unachievable realities?

Atmospheric systems are reconstructed from the ground up, from the vast rotational dynamics of the storm and mesocyclone to the microstructures of the funnel, debris field, and turbulence layers. Each coded element interacts in real time within the model, allowing the simulation to behave as an evolving ecosystem rather than a fixed visual event.

This foundation provides the freedom to make deliberate artistic choices, to bend realism toward an aesthetic and conceptual intention. Every parameter, from density to motion, becomes a decision between what nature dictates and what simulation design and art affords.

A new page in an ongoing masterwork, soon to be exhibited.

I can’t wait to show you 🖤🌪️