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RUSTIC SPUTNIK is a site-specific sculpture created for SiTE:LAB’s Rumsey Street Project in 2016. Constructed from a disassembled carriage house at 345 Franklin Street, the wooden Sputnik was built on the site of a former residence turned debris-covered vacant lot at 334 Rumsey Street. Drawing from the site history and available materials, Rustic Sputnik is the second in a series of Sputnik sculptures that play with ideas of relics and reliquaries, the discovery and excavation of future artifacts, the mystery of unidentified objects and “fellow travelers,” as well as mythologies, transformations, and ancient symbols. The work silently sat on this site until the entire street was redeveloped a year or two later. |
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RUSTY SPUTNIK is a site-specific sculpture created for the exhibition The Way of the Shovel, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2013. The sculpture is the first in a series of Sputniks (satellites/fellow travelers): sculptural installations that focus on ideas of future archaeology and time travel. Created from the decaying hull of a cy- clonic rooftop dust-collection unit, the metallic capsule was slightly altered, creating a mysterious future artifact from the obsolescence of a formerly mundane industrial object. Removed from the roof of a flavored hookah tobacco factory in Detroit, the unidentified object was further enigmatic in that its interior smelled of menthol and cherry. This rusty sculpture was followed by its rustic fellow traveling comrade, and other Sputnik works are on the horizon. Read more: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2013-14[catalog][video] |
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