These Sacred Things (Jendela, Esplanade) 2015

The demolition and construction site is in many ways our shared experience of the city. I have been working with Roof tiles and bricks salvaged from these sites around my neighborhood during the last few years. The bricks are remains of infrastructure that, before they went out of fashion, made the city proud. They are in a sense, both silent witnesses and victims of shifting forces that drive the perpetual construction and destruction of buildings, their memory and place. By working over them, I repeat the destruction of building/construction cycle, glazing over their original usability- sealing in their fates as it were as object d’art and cultural relic. Curated by Esplanade's Visual Arts team