Through Sculpture, Kiah Celeste Finds Elegance in the Everyday

Kiah Celeste trained as a photographer, majoring in the medium at SUNY Purchase. But after school, she abandoned it quickly, frustrated by all the rules that accompany such a technical pursuit. When I visited her Brooklyn live/work studio, it was brimming with sculptures, and I asked her if she thought she used her photo training indirectly. “If I do,” she said, “it’s by avoiding every single thing I learned.” Instead, Celeste credits her hands-on post-college