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Alexander Kachenko
The architecture of our lives is in constant motion. The buildings we live and work in are subjected to the forces beyond us, expanding and contracting to fit the needs of our city. When a structure outlives its purpose, we find a place more suited to our needs, and leave the property to the next person to retrofit or tear down and rebuild. There is often a moment in time in this process of regeneration when the shell of the building still stands, divorced of its prior use, empty, and no longer ours. But it still stands as a repository of our memory and our emotional attachments.
These architectural relief tiles hold our memory of these buildings. I create them as inverted lithographs, using glaze rather than light to expose the grayscale of an image in monotone color. Some details are brought to the surface, others are obscured, and some erased.
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