Awesome. I agree with the author of the piece though: possibly a ton of fun to climb around/sit on.
The sight is uncanny, as if a clump of houses got buried up to their necks after being thrown across the country by a magical Kansas tornado.
The wizard of this scenario is David Brooks, a New York-based sculptor and installation artist who has shown an ongoing fascination with displaced or out-of-context fragments of suburbia. His work spotlights the nature-culture hybrids in our everyday landscapes and shows how seemingly mundane things can cast monstrous shadows. […] Desert Rooftops, the 5,000-square-foot outdoor sculpture recently installed by Brooks and the Art Production Fund, with funding from Sotheby’s, points to the unbalanced “monoculture that arises from unchecked suburban and urban sprawl,” according to a statement released by Art Production Fund. “As housing communities devour more and more land and resources each year the outcome is equivalent to the very process of desertification.
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