CHRIS BETTENCOURT'S Sunbeam Mixmaster S

I make work about the ordinary objects, places, and people that hold the world together. I bear witness to how they fall apart, and how we find a way forward anyway. My practice spans relief printmaking, pyrography, photography, and assemblage. I'm drawn to tools, machines, and overlooked spaces: the things that worked hard without recognition, the places that functioned and then didn't, the people who kept going regardless. In Convenient, three vintage domestic machines, a sewing machine, a stand mixer, and a massage instrument, are elevated through pyrography and paint on wood panel. Each one promised women something. Each one delivered, and demanded more in return. I honor resilience at every stage: function, collapse, mourning, struggle, and the new form that emerges after. That cycle is everywhere if you're willing to look.