The Freedom Tower

This is the Freedom Tower.

Here’s a detail from a showing at Equity Gallery in Manhattan in 2023. It’s made of every kind of off-cut and cast-off that I had accumulated renovating a home and having a family in the course of 10 years, which was about how long I worked on it.

Here’s an image of it from the early going in 2014. Looking at it now, I feel it may have looked better back then.

But the whole idea with the Freedom Tower was that it should help me get over my idea of making a masterpiece. So I just kept adding to it.

And adding to it…

And adding to it until if finally grew a skin and a nervous system.

And became something that was large enough and imposing enough to satisfy the absurdity of the initial goal.