Kara Springer

Kara Springer is an artist in Bushwick whose practice examines structural systems through photography, sculpture, and site-specific work. She designed the Kaya Birth stool, a tool informed by cross-cultural birthing research now used in hospitals and birth centers worldwide.

Springer's practice is rooted in armature—the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place—and she uses photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to confront architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional and political power. Her work moves between scales, from macro photography capturing broken industrial materials, to documentation of events orchestrated in landscape, and the design of the Kaya Birth stool, a tool developed through research into cross-cultural birthing practices now used in hospitals and birth centers worldwide. Her practice is rooted in processes of care and tending, animated by the question of how one might agitate a broken system or heal and reconstitute new forms from broken structures and bodies.