Weak Monuments
found and altered honeycomb board
2021

An installation of found honeycomb paperboard panels with the facings removed. These were found on the Lower East Side shortly after the remains of Hurricane Ida struck in 2021. They were lashed together in a stack, obscuring the water damage within. Once they were separated, their deterioration was embraced as a starting point from which to further alter them by leaving them outside and rewetting, manipulating, and drying them over a period of several weeks.

Weak Monuments : HELD
24 x 17 x 9 inches
Weak Monuments : WRUNG
23 x 15 x 10 inches
Weak Monuments : REMAINS
33 x 22 x 3.5 inches
Weak Monuments : RENT
32 x 23 x 10 inches
Weak Monuments

The installation moving in response to air circulation.

Weak Monuments : BARE
found and altered honeycomb board
76 x 24 x .3 inches
2021

A large panel of honeycomb paperboard with its facings removed. Found in the East Village among discarded packaging of a mirror.

Weak Monuments : BARE

The process of removing the paper facings.

Weak Monuments : FAINT
found and altered expanded polystyrene (bead foam)
31 x 14 x .25 inches
2021
Weak Monuments : FAINT
Weak Monuments : Rounds
air pillows excised from found packaging
variable; each element 12.5 x 1.5 x .75 inches
2020-2022

A grouping of air pillows cut from discarded packaging to leave only enough plastic to contain the air.

Weak Monuments : Rounds
Weak Monuments : Tubes
air pillows excised from found packaging
variable; each element 31 x .75 inches
2020-2022

Air channels cut from discarded packaging to remove all plastic not holding in air.

Weak Monuments : RUIN
found and altered honeycomb board, bronze
each 7.5 x 3.5 x 2.25 inches
2021

The inner workings of two damaged and discarded honeycomb paperboard bricks. Paper facings are removed and surfaces are painted with bronze suspended in acrylic.

Weak Monuments : PLACE
found and altered honeycomb board
8 x 13 x 5 inches
2021

The inner corrugation of a panel of paperboard, exposed by removing the paper facings. Hung under tension with a single nail in each wall of a corner.

Weak Monuments : CANT
found and altered honeycomb board
variable - each panel is 11 inches wide
2021

Salvaged paperboard panels with facings removed. Relaxed over time in the heat of the room.

Weak Monuments : CLAIM
found and altered expanded polystyrene (bead foam)
92.5 x 14.25 x .33 inches
2021

A discarded large and thin panel of bead foam, picked on site to leave only the outer edge. Installed to echo the column and outline it from a particular viewing position.

Weak Monuments : CLAIM
2021

deinstall collapse