A Bath House Appearing Twice, Crudely
For this installation, Julie and Erik worked with d.esk to design and fabricate two side-by-side instances of a three-stepped structure model constructed twice. One is a 12-foot frame and panel assembly with graphic coding made from kraft paper water bags, fiberglass, and nylon. The second structure—composed of painter’s tape and rosin paper—echoes a traditional architectural study model but enlarged to a human-scale; this model similarly slumps down. Signs of architectural crudeness—leaks, stains, gaps, slumps, even yellowing and taping—proliferate indiscriminately. Alone, they’re craft-like and uncared for. Together, consistently deployed, each crude instance is buffed into a vulnerable sketch of likeness, if not strength.
Installation
Large Bath-House: fiberglass rods, metal brackets, nylon, reinforced paper, pool-liner, tape, clear tubing, filter nozzles, velcro, stables, water, 16’-3” W x 22’-5” D x 13’ H
Designed, fabricated, and constructed on behalf of David Eskenazi [d.esk]
SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, October 2023 – January 2024
Photographs: Brian Guido