Life is a Ruin

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30” x 40”

Oil, oil pastel, and acrylic on panel

“Still full of workers and dust, belching smoke, the factory was not quite a ghost, but it was certainly a relic, and therefore appealing to an architect with an ongoing fascination with ruins”

- a quote by the author of a biography about Ricardo Bofill, the esteemed Spanish architect whose work I was studying in this painting. Bofill had a knack for breathing new life into aged, industrial megaliths. The painting depicts “La Fabrica”, an old cement factory factory on the outskirts of Barcelona that he transformed into an astounding structure which served as his home and workplace. I particularly love how Bofill used gardens to add living texture and color into otherwise austere settings.