Yuki Gray works across sculpture, craft, and architecture, repurposing everyday construction materials such as steel, metal, wood, and cement into new forms. By combining craft-like precision with sculptural experimentation, he invites viewers to rediscover the potential of ordinary objects. City Smokes Series (2025) involves casting cement into silicone molds, onto which photographs of urban graffiti taken by the artist from different cities are transferred. Shaped like ashtrays, these works go beyond their functional form to capture the fleeting textures and impressions of the changing cityscape. In preserving memories that are ephemeral like cigarette ash, within everyday objects, Gray evokes a sensory landscape of disappearance and sedimentation in daily life.

To Dust (2025), a stool created by melting together of residual debris from the fabrication process, and From Dust (2025), a table that reinterprets images of nature into flattened visual patterns, both explore the boundaries between the artificial and natural, formation and erosion. These pieces float between what is seen, experienced, and remembered, mapping a sensorial terrain revealing the temporality embedded in materials. His sculptural inquiry into objects can be understood as an attempt to reactivate the latent time condensed within the work.