Fort (The City Within) Mixed Media Landscape Sculpture

This sculptural diptych turns the city into a pair of concentric memories: one face reads as an earthen façade, its rhythmic apertures and recessed arches suggesting dwellings that hold breath, silence, and lived history. Opposite, a gilded cartographic web fractures into streets and currents, where the luminous band cuts through the field like a river of time—both a connector and a wound that reorganizes everything around it. The circular format behaves like a reliquary or lens, compressing architecture and movement into a single orbit, while the burnished reds and golds evoke sunbaked clay meeting precious metal, intimacy meeting monument. Together, the two sides propose that place is never fixed: it is built, mapped, and continually revised by passage, erosion, and desire.