Untitled (GCC) 1

The GCC of this sculpture's subtitle is a reference to "Gold Coast Customs," a 1929 verse by British poet Edith Sitwell that traces the "savage" underpinnings of so-called civilized society, a complex cultural relationship echoed in the work itself. In a reference to modern and contemporary architecture, Armando Andrade Tudela has sandblasted a geometric grid into the surface of a copper-colored mirror, which is then veiled by a wrinkled sheet of plastic similar to those used in architectural construction. The blurred reflections that result allude to the distorted and illusory aspects of modernity and "progress."