Erasure in the Making — Devora Perez

Erasure in the Making. 2020. Wood, plexiglass, concrete, and asphalt. 7 x 10 x 6 feet.

Erasure in the Making is composed of a rectangular wooden structure that is 7’x10’x6.’ The structure is open and made to be ambiguous in its function and phase, as if in the process of erection or dismantlement. On two sides of the structure, plexiglass boxes hang, one with asphalt, the other with concrete. The plexiglass boxes allude to a fixed, or “picture,” window that is non-operational and framed by the structure. Within the suspended clear boxes are artificial landscapes, symbolic of the built environment and its constructs. Erasure in the Making was located in the Everglades, a vast remote expanse where the horizon line is low and framed by the limitless sky; there the work will stand distinct and strangely, in stark contrast to the landscape.