#35, salvaged wood PETL69

• Reclaimed wood
• 30 x 30 inches

No. 35 takes its structure from the spatial geometry of Richard Diebenkorn and from aerial views of how humans organize living space — streets, walls, rooms, pathways, boundaries, systems of order that have become inseparable from contemporary life. Built from salvaged painted wood, the composition holds these accumulated layers within a single field.

At the center, a gray square bears a faint penciled "35" — preserved exactly as found. The board came from the sanctuary of a Catholic church that was deconsecrated and converted to condominiums, salvaged from the space above the altar. That number, that surface, that history now sits at the heart of the work: a small human trace inside a larger constructed landscape, carrying its former life forward into a new one.