Indriķis Ģelzis lives and works in Riga, Latvia. He makes metal sculptures that look a little like stock market graphs — rising and falling, full of tension — except he never uses real data. Instead he draws on personal memory, imagination, and experience, then works it into physical form through cutting, welding, and bending steel.

Gaze Grows Bones is built from clusters of steel spheres that suggest eyes — taking everything in, projecting outward. They’re painted grey, black, and red, and their surfaces are made from small rectangular units that look like bandages or patches. The spheres are arranged along a curved vertical spine, as if years of looking — at screens, at each other, at the world — had slowly built up into something solid. Scaffolding-like structures surround the work, and chains connect its parts, suggesting both support and constraint. The work asks a quiet question: does the way we see the world eventually shape us? And who, or what, shapes the way we see?

This work is part of Power of the Margins, Sculpture Milwaukee’s 2026 exhibition. Gaze Grows Bones is presented in partnership with Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, founded in Riga in 2008 and is one of Latvia’s leading contemporary art institutions. Support for this work is made in part by the Baltic Culture Fund.