Faultline

Cement, concrete, gold gilding

36 x 30 cm

2016

Fracture reframes yet revisits familiar landscapes in focusing on construction sites in the UAE. Miniature concrete walls were built, broken, and rebuilt to reinstate the fault lines, intentionally damaged, discarded, and rusted to iterate the ancient Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi that sums up the core intention behind this project. The philosophy recognizes the transient and the imperfection of everything and redefines what we perceive as beautiful, perfect, or functional. Repaired walls depict human existence as fragile and vulnerable by embracing perfection in imperfection in nature and manmade systems.

Sounds of construction work and an interview with one of the workers were incorporated along with standing sculptures of scaled-down walls, drawing on the labor community's absence and hard work that goes into making a building in the UAE at present.