Settlement
The fabrication of Settlement involved digitally reconstructing models of buildings razed during the construction of the Eisenhower Expressway from historical photographs. Those models were then CNC carved to create a mold for the final hollow fiberglass shell.
At a time of increasing polarization around migration and immigration, Settlement aims to reveal ways in which cities and their people continually move and change. By linking two disparate parts of Chicago by their material legacies, Settlement “raises the ghosts” from one razed section of the city in another to encourage conversation about our human connections to the built environment.
-Balas & Wax
Balas & Wax
2018
