Spiralces

a spiracle is an external respiratory opening

Prose Spring/Summer 2011

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Humans vs. Nature, Humans vs. Humans, Nature vs. Nature

Phillip Estlund

Hurricanes

Foreclosed abandoned homes

Demolition

Wild Fires

Tornados

Earthquakes

Homelessness

Natural Resources

Overdevelopment

Urban planning

Tsunamis

Bombs

Rain

Is this starting to sound like a Billy Joel song? Anyway, I'm very captivated by Phillip's work. The subject matter haunts me and draws thoughts of a surviving world with a romantic tone. His sculptures are resurrected pieces of broken Florida homes and dioramas of shifting overgrown materials both natural and synthetic. I love the collages as well but I am especially drawn to the architecture of the sculptures–part whimsical treehouse, part serious post-apocolyptic shelter, part disturbing reality of south Florida's housing crisis.

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Stoned

Beach Combing , Drop Necklaces and Spotted Stones.
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