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Rise
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The Rise series derives from two separate trains of thought.
The first one has to with our urban environments and how their historically recent development
has employed tools and machinery that soon became the symbols of the growth itself,
like the Tower Cranes that very often populate our skyline.
Cranes rise up, signify and remind residents and visitors alike
of the things to come and alter their environment, their routine.
The second thought has to do with a personal fascination around this particular marvel of engineering.
The cranes have been integral to every development in the history of human settlement.
Their types, forms and applications vary accordingly, but their logic remains the same,
their function as familiar as the practise of using our own hands.
Based on actual data sourced for each city,
the artworks display numbers and volumes of cranes as they currently operating.
The environment doesn't involved the urban developments though.
Standing isolated of their context, the cranes generate their own presence and meaning,
the meaning of growth, evolution and action.
The series has a mixed media body that consists of two and three-dimensional wall pieces
made of ink and resin.
Sydney, 334 cranes
Dubai, approx. 1000
Toronto, 72 cranes
Sketch, 100 cranes
