Location: 12:05 3360', Open Playa
Build Better Ruins is a totemic homage to the common widgets we see every day and yet rarely look at on our city streets or neighborhood sidewalks. The artist has customized each element—mailboxes, street lights, electrical resistors from power poles, and (non-functioning) CCTV camera housings—in ways that will invite nature to take over, to repurpose these mundane things in a future that might need more bird nests, mason bee homes, or vegetation everywhere in our modern urban areas.
With steam-punk aspects and a soft aesthetic for the tower itself, Build Better Ruins asks us either how we might re-imagine the existing modern landscapes around us today or, perhaps, how nature might do that for us in some near future.