Scaffolding 2026
steel powder coated
Unexpectedly, two distinct contexts began to shape this form: the Royal Castle in Warsaw and the precise architectural paintings of Bernardo Bellotto, alongside a more recent experience of Hong Kong. Together, they guided the sculpture toward an understanding of scaffolding as something that both reveals and conceals, constructs and obscures. In Bellotto’s works, architecture appears complete and stable, yet the processes behind it remain invisible; similarly, the reconstructed castle embodies layers of history, restoration, and reinterpretation. In contrast, the bamboo scaffolding of Hong Kong—light, modular, and temporary—makes the act of building visible while simultaneously veiling what is still in progress. These overlapping references converge in the sculpture, where structure becomes not only a means of support, but a shifting condition: a form that constructs reality while partially hiding it, holding within it the tension between what is seen and what remains in process.