Portland Wall

November 2017

A drawing for Office Andorus (Andrew Santa Lucia), shown in Extracurricular PSU, an exhibition of Portland State faculty work at AIA Portland

A brick wall against a pink gradient, with the pale, extruded profiles of cast-iron street lamps jutting from it at angles, a pink lamp globe, and a small orange craftsman door

This wall is part of a series of “Portland Walls” in a collaborative project with Office Andorus, exhibited in the Portland State faculty show Extracurricular PSU. Using the “wall” as an architectural canvas, the wall should manifest Portland through objects both referential and reflective. Here, the strange, obliquely extruded profiles of historic cast-iron street lamps protrude from the wall, dematerialized and scaled. They sit adjacent to a caricatured, plastic craftsman door, of the kind commonly seen in turn-of-the-century Portland bungalows. This wall is a comment on Portland’s relationship with old and new.