Category: RUIN

apostrophe: Study for Three Reclining Figures

Francisco-Fernando Granados Portraits are signs. In a portrait, the figure pushes to the foreground while the background recedes in order to make its opposite legible. There is a boundary created between positive and negative space. The up-rightness characteristic of a…

Constructed Ruin

Ashley McLellan The staircase at the end of the alleyway next to my old apartment building looked as though it was a forgotten ruin from the distant past. Built to reflect classical aesthetics, the stairs were not long but wide…