Large-scale drawings and sculptures allude to architectural renderings and the balance between stability, construction and economic security. In drawings, charcoal lines and cutouts form piles of lumber, ladders, windows, and structural beams. The scale of these drawings invites viewers to imagine themselves entering a construction site, but the impracticality of the construction is quickly apparent. It is at once exterior and interior—a space made impossible by infinite additions and subtractions; the simultaneous building and destroying of the images suggests an optimism underlying destruction, and ever-present possibility. Flocked sculptures and paper cut-outs made from altered and drawn sawhorses, ladders, roadside remnants, cell towers, blank billboards, and outlines of trees form a fractured landscape. These utilitarian objects build an alien-but-familiar tree line existing in a continuous state of flux, growing and collapsing, caught forever in a state of becoming. Light boxes from skywriting project, "The Sky Is the Limit" capture a series of messages taken from advertising. The phrases, such as "Space Available," both exciting and portentous, indicate fantastic sales and business closings. The available space advertised is the most potent symbol of longing in the landscape: the sky.
installed: Mixed Greens, NYC / photography: Etienne Frossard