The Builders

The Builders — 2015, 15x20 inch image on 17x22 inch Velvet Fine Art paper.

The figures originate from pedestrian walking signs spray-painted along a New York City pathway — universal symbols borrowed from the everyday flow of city movement. Six are carved from a single acrylic panel using a Dremel tool, each silhouette containing a Minneapolis skyline photographed and then layered over itself digitally until it becomes something between document and invention — a city that is every city.

The canvas beneath is prepared with molding paste and crackle paste, stained a diluted gray — pavement-colored, quiet. The figures mount on acrylic standoffs, holding themselves off the surface, casting shadows, occupying real space. The city is inside them. The ground is where they walk.

The Builders sold in 2015. Prints are available.