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Hold On Me, 2022
Cast aluminum sourced from demolition site on knurled and chromed steel, steel mount
“I wanted a piece; a little harmless something by which to commemorate 12th Street Gym. It was a small length of metal, an aluminum railing. It floated there in the sun, unearthed from the rubble, a witness to the demolition, its burnished surface interrupted by a scrape from the backhoe.”
Through urban intervention, material transformation and intergenerational exchange, Hold on Me reinvests a former site of ritualized communion, bodybuilding and cruising with its erased and omitted historical narrative.
Made in collaboration with the William Way Foundation and Philadelphia’s finest muscle daddies.