Monday, December 20, 2010

Spiralces






a spiracle is an external respiratory opening

Prose Spring/Summer 2011

~ sea ~

Sunday, December 12, 2010

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






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.

- sea -