The leaning and wall-mounted works are gun combines.
Triggers, receivers, barrels, flash suppressors, and other firearm
scraps welded together.
Hollow, disarmed. No more function.
The phrase, “caught lacking,” refers to being confronted, by
surprise, without a weapon for self-defense.


Oshay Green, born in 1994 in Dallas ,Texas. Lives and works in Dallas, Texas USA.
In Lacking Phases, Oshay Green reclaims and reconfigures fragments of decommissioned firearms, transforming them into minimalist sculptures. Sourced from gun shops, these discarded parts—triggers, receivers, barrels, flash suppressors—are welded together into abstract forms. Stripped of their function, the remnants of weapons become hollow, disarmed, and reimagined as objects without intent.
The title references the phrase “caught lacking,” meaning to be caught off guard, unarmed, and vulnerable. Green’s sculptures embody this tension, existing in a state between power and impotence, violence and absence. In a sense, they ask: What happens when the cheapest metal you can find is a gun barrel?