DeSoto Detached

Gage Hamilton, American

This piece is part of a series by Gage Hamilton, which focuses on bringing physical form to life forces that lack physicality. Origin, doom, order, chaos, consciousness, identity, fear, love, and other abstract concepts that are never physically seen or felt, but remain present forces throughout existence, This piece is part of a series by Gage Hamilton, which focuses on bringing physical form to life forces that lack physicality. Origin, doom, order, chaos, consciousness, identity, fear, love, and other abstract concepts that are never physically seen or felt, but remain present forces throughout existence, are given life through imagining physical form. In this case, it responds to the metallic, detached bust of Hernando de Soto that floats suspended in time; both a reference to the DeSoto (Plymouth) Building’s history and the legacy of the sixteenth century conquistador.

De Soto Building, 720 NW Couch Ave.

year: 2014
discipline: mural

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