The Found Monuments emerged from a fascination with ruins and constructs, the ideal and the process of idolization. They began with researching ancient monuments and their status as the ultimate...
The Found Monuments emerged from a fascination with ruins and constructs, the ideal and the process of idolization. They began with researching ancient monuments and their status as the ultimate of icons, with their piles of rubble and broken facades. Unassembled, the remains have a wholeness that cannot exist in a realized state. The submitted works are reflections of those monuments with their unplaced pieces caught between creation and destruction, ideation and reality. They are depictions of the moment of conceptualization when the ideal is still visible.
The Found Monuments are created from imagery and “monuments” discovered beneath Texas highway underpasses and abandoned construction sites. They elevate the mounds of rock and detritus to the status of icons, giving them permanence and value, even if they no longer exist. The Found Monuments are epitaphs for the unattainable, the things we have dreamed of but never found.