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Posted On: September 20th 2025, 05:23 pm
๐๐๐ง๐ฉ๐, ๐๐ค๐๐ฎ & ๐ค๐ง๐
recycled pallet wood, clays, window liner, plaster, dirt, debris, tin, cloth, caulking, roofing
~30'x18'x10' & variable
๐๐๐ง๐ฉ๐, ๐๐ค๐๐ฎ & ๐ค๐ง๐ is a fortification built in the weather of exhaustion. Its surface reads like a repair log: patches, braces, caulk lines. The title folds labor into flesh: earth as site, body as tool, ore as the promise we keep extracting from ourselves. The work asks how long endurance can substitute for safety and how far willpower can be stretched. On a personal level, it describes psychological exhaustion, the compulsion to keep producing even as the seams and temporary fixes show. The pursuit of โmoreโ looks compelling from a distance but hollow up close; pushed far enough, it becomes a harmful, obsessive loop. Inside, seams are left exposed; the structure stages permanence with impermanent things.
At a larger scale, it points to nations and economies psychologically accelerated to build at inhuman rates, measuring worth by output rather than care, and asks what that does to bodies, materials, and civic life. It names a psychology of extractionโmotivation organized by productionโwhere the self is mined until nothing remains. Build more, but with what? And at what cost?
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
recycled pallet wood, clays, window liner, plaster, dirt, debris, tin, cloth, caulking, roofing
~30'x18'x10' & variable
๐๐๐ง๐ฉ๐, ๐๐ค๐๐ฎ & ๐ค๐ง๐ is a fortification built in the weather of exhaustion. Its surface reads like a repair log: patches, braces, caulk lines. The title folds labor into flesh: earth as site, body as tool, ore as the promise we keep extracting from ourselves. The work asks how long endurance can substitute for safety and how far willpower can be stretched. On a personal level, it describes psychological exhaustion, the compulsion to keep producing even as the seams and temporary fixes show. The pursuit of โmoreโ looks compelling from a distance but hollow up close; pushed far enough, it becomes a harmful, obsessive loop. Inside, seams are left exposed; the structure stages permanence with impermanent things.
At a larger scale, it points to nations and economies psychologically accelerated to build at inhuman rates, measuring worth by output rather than care, and asks what that does to bodies, materials, and civic life. It names a psychology of extractionโmotivation organized by productionโwhere the self is mined until nothing remains. Build more, but with what? And at what cost?
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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