ON HOLD

In Groo, Haozous conjures a hybrid creature, part animal, part spirit, part invention. The name itself suggests playfulness, yet the form and steel structure convey gravity and weight. Haozous frequently created beings that feel ancient and futuristic at once, collapsing time in a manner consistent with Indigenous cosmologies. With a sense of hybrid vitality and spiritual charge, Groo operates as a personal cosmological figure — part guardian, part trickster, part commentary on the human-animal boundary. Its material solidity contrasts with the imaginative freedom of its form, reinforcing the enduring themes in Haozous’s work: that identity, like sculpture itself, is shaped through both pressure and imagination.