Project Text
The
wall was built between the columns as a place to hang pictures. The
columns there a hundred years before the gallery, the foundation of
a building advertised by its developer as the longest building in the
city; overlooking the water, before the bay was filled. I pictured, and then painted a picture of the wall. Displaced somewhere that looks the
way cinema and television trained me to imagine the end of the world.
The wall and the columns will remain there after my picture is removed.
They will likely remain for a while after, too. But I wonder, how much
longer? Will the gallery be there after the sea rises and the bay
returns? What happens to pictures after the end of the world?Architectural Intervention (The End). 2023. Installation view, MassArt × SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA. Photo: Rebecca Morrison.
Architectural Intervention (The End). 2023. Oil on canvas. 60 × 78 inches.