A New Day
A New Day examines the promise of renewal through the material remains of aging infrastructure. Constructed from salvaged pipes, rebar, sheet metal, and drainage components, the installation brings together fragments embedded with histories of labor, use, and neglect. Layers of paint simultaneously conceal and preserve these traces, suggesting that each new beginning emerges through partial erasure rather than complete transformation. Hovering between abstraction and degraded landscape, the work reflects on how narratives of progress often obscure a more cyclical reality, one where the future is continually built from the unresolved remains of the past.
(Installation at South Studios at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2018)