Urban Construction

Construction as condition, not progress. A place always being built over whatever it just was.

MediumAcrylic

MaterialMaple Wood, Metal, Concrete, Epoxy

Dimensions13 × 8 × 1 in33 × 20 cm

SeriesStreet Spirits

EditionUnique, 1 of 1

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The work

The city mid-assembly, caught in the state it spends most of its life in. Construction here is not progress but condition, permanent scaffolding over whatever the place just was.

Bars of spray-painted aluminum cut across the form like barricades or redactions, the black lines a city draws through its own plans.

Acrylic and aluminum on maple wood, metal, concrete, and epoxy.

The series, Street Spirits

Street Spirits is a series of small urban relics, hand-cast in concrete with sculpted epoxy detail and sealed under UV-protective clear coats, each set on a handcrafted base of solid maple or concrete. The series reads Los Angeles as material: construction surfaces, street markings, film-industry residue, the layered noise of a city that keeps overwriting itself. Industrial weight against the warmth of wood. Signals, warnings, distortion, survival, held still long enough to be kept.

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