August 28th, 2007. Venice, Italy.

The nature of this project came into existence while I was completing the third and final month of my summer internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. One of the positions all interns must work is called 'Palazzo'; sitting in a tiny 4'x'4'x8' cubicle tearing peoples ticket stubs as they enter the museum. In a few minutes, it is possible to collect about ten ticket stubs. Rectanglar in shape, I found it very tempting to use the stub as a module to build my 'paper architecture' out of, free standing architectural sculptures that had to overcome the breezes of the wind as visitors opened and closed the doors. I found myself first imitating several of my favorite structures inthe best way I could, and further inventing my own structures. The works had a very short longevity placed upon them - every shift lasted on two hours, and if you were caught participating in the building by a worker of a higher authority, you were usually requeted to dispose of the 'garbage'. So I would place the longevity of the works anywhere from five minutes to one hour, the same window amount of time that was at your disposal to create the said works. So I began bringing my camera with me and slowly photographing the creations whenever I completed something. It turned out to be quite a valueable exercise in using found, modular objects to construct forms that are outside of the modules own geometric makeup, as well as experiment with the lightweight properties of paper and testing the heights that it could reach. The ephemerl quality of the works proved to be an asset; as quickly as a structure was dismantled, a new one sprung up.