Scott Hocking: LANTERN Sculptures

Scott Hocking was in residence at Stanton Yards during the Spring of 2025, creating a series of sculptures from discarded items at the maritime site on the Detroit River. Known for his often unsanctioned, large-scale, site-specific sculptures created from discarded materials, Hockings creates site-specific installations, sculptures, and photography projects, often using found materials and neglected locations. Inspired by subjects ranging from ancient mythologies to current events, his artworks focus on transformation, ephemerality, chance, the cycles of nature, and patterns of human behavior through time. Hockings site-specific works involve deep dives into the history of each site, the people, the layers of time, and the materials available there, and an interest in connecting our present time with the past. With a meditative practice that often finds him working alone, Hocking has a long-standing interest in creating works that utilize wasted materials and spaces, choosing to recycle and transform both the objects and sites in an attempt to change or shake up a viewer’s preconceived ideas and perceptions.