Paradise Prototype
2018
Cast sugar and lumber
6.5’h x 10’w x 4’d
San Diego Art Institute
A chunk of ephemeral architectural folly constructed from cast block of pink granulated sugar crowned with perforated "breeze blocks". The work is a spectral echo of the mid-century architecture of the southwest and its complicated relationship to both the desert environment and the fantasies of those who have been, and still are, drawn to it. The sculpture's façade dissolves under lawn sprinklers, and is born away by ants.
(Photos by Philipp Scholz-Rittermann)
