Exhibition 2025
Mirage of Vestiges
Selected Artist at The Table and Gallery, 1209 Chapel Street, New Haven
This exhibition explored memory, influence, and architectural inheritance. The work was inspired by my travels to the Acropolis in Greece, where I began to reflect on how built forms shape our ways of thinking.
Published in the Yale Daily News 09/25/25
What vestiges am I made of? This piece weaves together fragments from the Parthenon, Unite d’Habitation, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, and more to question whether my architectural imagination is truly original—or a collage of inherited forms. If, as Mies van der Rohe said, “architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space,” how can I understand my own will without knowing the epoch I inhabit? The drawing becomes a timeline of influence, a self-portrait built from centuries of architecture.
The ruins of classical architecture often symbolize the remnants of a once-great civilization or the enduring legacy of cultural achievements. How do we decide how to interpret these historical artifacts? Whether through archaeology, scholarship, or memory, are we uncovering the truth of the past, or are we selectively interpreting (or hiding) aspects of it to fit contemporary narratives?
There are thousands of classical ruins scattered across the world. Not all have reached even a comparable level to the tourism, attention and significance associated with the Parthenon. Many have been destroyed, disassembled to be stored in museums, reassimilated into modern architecture etc…This drawing is inspired by the ongoing dialogue between preserving cultural heritage and the inevitable decay or reinterpretation of that heritage over time. Are we lifting the veil to celebrate and preserve the past, or are we allowing it to fade into obscurity?
