Crumpled Spire
wood | 27 x 11.5 x 11.5 feet
Photo credit: Kip Wilkinson
Crumpled Spire (detail)
wood | 27 x 11.5 x 11.5 feet
Photo credit: Kip Wilkinson
Crumpled Spire (detail)
wood | 27 x 11.5 x 11.5 feet
Photo credit: Kip Wilkinson
Crumpled Spire is a large-scale sculpture that reinterprets architect Santiago Calatrava’s proposed Spire for Chicago’s downtown lakefront.
Calatrava’s building coincided with the city’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics and was to provide a new icon for the Chicago skyline as the Western Hemisphere’s tallest building. Construction halted in 2008 with the economic recession, but the image lived on. Crumpled Spire, made from linear lumber to create a hollow, skeletal structure, emerges from the floor of the gallery and crumples over as if crushed by the ceiling and existing walls of the space.
This work exhibited as part of Superstructures at THE MISSION in Chicago.