<span style="font-style: italic;">"Consider the momentous event in architecture<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />when the wall parted</span></span> and the column became." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">-Louis Kahn </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6048/6299029127_d0c969b870_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6048/6299029127_d0c969b870_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 699px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">ghetto, 2010</span><br /><br /><br /></div><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6299554388_78043a8b60_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ricwarren.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ric Warren:</span></span></a> "I believe that urban structures have effects beyond their basic functions and I try to explore the symbolic meanings of these materials and forms. In addition to <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">investigating conditions of contemporary urbanism</span></span>, I am interested in the historical and hypothetical changes of our human habitat (physically, politically, culturally, socially and environmentally) as well as the everyday maintenance and progress of our built surroundings.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6299554388_78043a8b60_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6299554388_78043a8b60_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 524px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br /><br />City Limits: Revanchism and the Redevelopment of Spatial Separation<br />(Shields 1-7), 2011 </span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br />"Spaces that are visually concealed or made physically inaccessible intrigue me and I try to explore these concerns within my work. Often exploring themes of exclusion,<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I am interested in structures that effect to conceal, edit, remove, obstruct, imprison, or deny access.</span></span> I am also interested in distorting functionality by exploiting of the formal tradition of sculpture to occupy space rather than create it. Similar to my intentionally flawed ‘faux architectural’ drawings,<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> my structures and models attempt to mimic the language of architecture, or intervene with it, to create structures that hold space but do not offer it."</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------------</span>

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