It Was A Sign #4
Materials: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2024
Dimensions: Height 42″ x Width 32″ x Depth 1.5″
When I created “It Was a Sign #4,” I wanted to make something raw and layered, a piece that could speak to the fragmented nature of our daily lives. I took an old construction sign — rugged, scraped by time and the elements — and cut it apart, letting each piece fall away from its original meaning. As I started reassembling it, arranging those jagged edges and fractured words, it felt like working on a puzzle with no clear picture to follow.
Each piece, every slant and cut, seemed to tell its own story, a whisper of warning, or maybe just a hint of irony in the face of constant reconstruction. I could feel the work take on a life of its own, asking to be read like a cryptic message or a riddle. The bright orange, stark black, the worn textures — they all felt like signposts in a landscape of shifting meanings. It’s a sculpture, but it’s also a message in pieces, a reflection on how we patch together our own sense of understanding from the fragments around us.
“It Was a Sign #4” is a reminder of how we read meaning into things, how we pick up the pieces and try to make sense of them, even when the full picture remains just out of reach.