Remains

2024
Discarded lettuce from 2013, steel, oil board, and UV acrylic      134 inches diameter
Exhibited at Sullivan Galleries, the Harold Washington Library, and the DePaul Art Museum.

This sculpture replicates the rose window from the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Pi in Barcelona, a structure that has famously collapsed multiple times throughout its history. I see this as a powerful metaphor for the fragility of imposed ideologies. In place of traditional stained glass, I use discarded lettuce sourced from a market in my Chicago neighborhood, emphasizing both the ephemerality of the material and the vulnerability of the symbol itself. By lowering the rose window to eye level, I aim to disarm the hierarchical power it holds when seen overhead in sacred architecture.

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