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Atlanta, GA

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to become an echo by Michael Webster
to become an echo by Michael Webster  Image: detail of 3D printed sculpture made from scans of found bricks
to become an echo by Michael Webster  Image: inkjet print of digital rendering, drone survey markers
    
    The 3D scanned bricks were photographed upon the drone markers used in the digital mapping of space. This is a single image from a series of prints.
to become an echo by Michael Webster
  • Michael Webster
  • to become an echo
  • found bricks, cast plaster bricks, 3D scanned and printed bricks
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Feral bricks were found buried in the grass and piled along the edge of properties - remnants from houses, schools, and industry. The lost architecture only exists in memories and in the memory of digital archives, transformed from clay and mortar to bits and pixels. This exhibition considers the relationship between physical matter and digital memory. As I created plaster casts, digital scans, and 3D printed replicas of found bricks, information was lost, transformed, and new information added, much like how we remember the past. These left behind, feral bricks are full of potential energy, and could once again become architecture serving the future of Spartanburg. Instead of disappearing into the landscape, a patchwork quilt of bricks will become a new public space in the near future.

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