Ruined, but Overwhelming

Tied Up To

Concrete casted with orange juice, construction ribbon, antique postcards from the Grecian Temple of Athena, marble veneer, plywood, rebar, marking paint, cinder block, masonry twine.

Tied Up To

Concrete casted with orange juice, construction ribbon, antique postcards from the Grecian Temple of Athena, marble veneer, plywood, rebar, marking paint, cinder block, masonry twine.

Strapped and Hollow

Fast patch concrete, plywood, wood supports, antique postcard from the Grecian Temple of Athena, ratchet strap

Strapped and Hollow

Fast patch concrete, plywood, wood supports, antique postcard from the Grecian Temple of Athena, ratchet strap

Strapped and Hollow

Fast patch concrete, plywood, wood supports, antique postcard from the Grecian Temple of Athena, ratchet strap

Temple

Aquarium decoration, marking paint, steel plate and rod, concrete.

Ruined, but Overwhelming

In a series of iconoclastic gestures, these sculptures render the culturally and literally massive structures of built ideology into aesthetic and assessable fragments of themselves. Thin and narrow sculptures, pieces of rubble, small photographs, and aquarium ornaments reduce the massiveness of architecture to individual samples and components of built structures, whose effect seems measurable and calculated. Small antique photographs of Grecian temples strapped to the modern concrete slab or broken cinder block treat the documentation of classical western architecture with a kind of irreverence, all the while suggesting that the role they play in cultural imaginaries is still active. An aquarium ornament sits atop a slender pedestal, relegating the architecture to a kitsch object on diorama scale. For classical architecture, and the subsequent buildings that have drawn upon it, has always been bound up in the political and oppressive histories that attempt to use it as a symbol of power. Drawing on the aesthetics of these ruins, these works position the material of contemporary structures as vulnerable– interjecting orange juice into the casting of the concrete or coating broken chunks of asphalt with salt– and lightening the overwhelming shadow of them in the built environment.