Nearly all of 2009 focused on the Globe Grain Elevator in Superior, Wis. Statement for this work:
In (Project for the Globe Elevator), I account for the scope of American civilization, its productive past and how it has been spelled-out across our physical and cultural landscape. By using of a form of portraiture, I intend to distill our shared cultural heritage down to archetypal imagery as signifiers of the distinctly American character that has so changed the world. The model for this portrait will be the last-of-its-kind wooden Globe Elevator, which is currently being dismantled at St. Louis Bay in Superior, Wisconsin. The metaphor is a poignant one: an icon of the industrial age, it stood for 125 years as a funnel for the riches of a continent in full bloom, a temple to ravenous exuberance and the concept of endless growth. It required an entire forest for its construction, and over the course of a century disgorged itself of tens-of-millions of bushels of wheat for waiting world-markets. Today, as it is scavenged for its virgin timber and heavy metals, it is emblematic of market decline and post-productive anxiety.
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