Have you ever thrown a rock at a window?
Throwing a rock is one of the most primal human actions and is imbued in actions of punishment and protest since the first cities began to flourish on the Euphrates. In my process, I embrace, provoke, and appropriate to explore the ways civil disobedience, crime, justice, care, violence, and economics have a stake in what it means to be a responsible citizen. The everyday environment shapes our behavior and thinking, architecture is psychological, cities are a cosmic web of dispositions from all kinds of backgrounds. Within this context of cities my hope is that the object or essence is always familiar. A window as a layered metaphor.
!["God, Guns, and Glory" [Altarpiece for Chapel of the Rocks] found windows, insulation foam, caulking, spray paint, sand, pink foam, tape, bullet casings
83 x 6 x 63in
(2021)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65dab45ed1314f19bd8420b0/f04e7745-1d4b-40ac-b8bd-f80a5add9abe/IMG_1269.jpg)
"God, Guns, and Glory" [Altarpiece for Chapel of the Rocks] found windows, insulation foam, caulking, spray paint, sand, pink foam, tape, bullet casings 83 x 6 x 63in (2021)
!["God, Guns, and Glory" [Altarpiece for Chapel of the Rocks] found windows, insulation foam, caulking, spray paint, sand, pink foam, tape, bullet casings, cinderblocks and netting.
83 x 6 x 63in
(2021)
@ San Diego Museum of Art](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65dab45ed1314f19bd8420b0/bed9ce92-7558-41af-9a86-c730da139773/Justin+Sterling+023ChapeloftheRocks.jpg)
"God, Guns, and Glory" [Altarpiece for Chapel of the Rocks] found windows, insulation foam, caulking, spray paint, sand, pink foam, tape, bullet casings, cinderblocks and netting. 83 x 6 x 63in (2021) @ San Diego Museum of Art
"Freedom Blinds" found window, blinds, FEMA tarp, 50 pennies, caulking 28 x 2 x 23in (2021) Private Collection
"Sea of Rust" found windows, trash bags, found iron window bar, spray paint, caulking 81 x 2 x 38 (2021) In Collection of Museu Municipal de Tossa de Mar
"Scheduled Demolition" Found window, trash bag, caulking 90 x 2 x 33in (2018)
"Half Full" Found window, glass 29 x 2 x 34in (2019)
"Terrorized" found window, caulking, rope 35 x 2 x 38 (2021)
“Blood on the leaves, blood at the roots” Found windows, sand, dirt, wood, insulation foam, afro pick, sunglasses, caulking 30 x 2 x 71 (2021)
"Renegade" found window, insulation foam, pink insulation, bullet casings, caulking 27 x 2 x 31 (2021) Private Collection
"Limpia" Found window, insulation foam, measuring tape, sponges, dirt, caulking 31` x 6 x 33
"Toxic" found window, spray paint, glue, glass, caulking 29 x 2 x 35in (2017)
"Escaping it all on a cruise only to be trapped again" found window, blinds, glass tape, sand, insulation foam, and caulking 26 x 2 x 30 (2019)
"Somewhere Beyond the Sea" Found windows, glass tape, iPhone, glass, recycling bags 80 x 2 x 30in (2019)
“Blak n White” Found window insulation foam, afro pick, caulking 31 x 2 x 32in (2019)
“Jamaican Sun” Found window, sand, rocks, shells, moss, insulation foam, sponge, glass tape, caulking 28 x 2 x 34in (2020)
“Low Pressure” Found window, glass tape, insulation foam, caulking 29 x 2 x 35 (2019)
"Virus" found window, stain, insulation foam 35 x 2 x 38 (2021)
"At an escapist resort on the beach unable to escape" Found window, insulation foam, tape, spray paint, gravel, beach sand, sponge, caulking 93 x 2 x 32in (2018)
"Normcore Spore" found window, insulation foam, rocks, concave mirror, caulking 42 x 6 x 34in (2019) Private Collection
"Work spirit breaking through cloud" found window, insulation foam, work glove, caulking 27 x 2 x 28in (2021)
"Doom scroll" Found windows, window blinds, iPhone, keys, glass, caulking 92 x 2 x 26 (2019)
"Fear of Waves" Found window, insulation foam, tape, dirt, plastic trash bags, iPhone, glass, caulking 93 x 2 x 32in (2018)
"Shango and the Black Atlantic" found window, plastic bag, tape, spray paint, glass, caulking 27 x 2 x 36in (2020)
"The shotgun from the Mississippi River delta" found windows, insulation foam, blinds, cowrie shells, wood, caulking 87 x 2 x 30in (2018) Private Collection
"Unbroken family portrait at night with rain" found window, insulation foam, rocks, sand 28 x 2 x 30 (2019) Private Collection
!["So Much Trouble in the World" [Part of Chapel of the Rocks]
found windows, spray paint, insulation foam caulking
58 x 2 x 58
(2021)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65dab45ed1314f19bd8420b0/1709689778295-MM8GGWUR934E4F5IFFA5/CHAPEL%2BBLUE%2BGREEN%2BIOWA.jpg)
"So Much Trouble in the World" [Part of Chapel of the Rocks] found windows, spray paint, insulation foam caulking 58 x 2 x 58 (2021)
"Invisible Man" Found Brooklyn window, insulation foam, salt, tape, spray paint, caulking 26 x 2 x 35in (2019) Private Collection
"Stolen Evidence" Found window, insulation foam, tape, dirt, caulking 53 x 2 x 29 (2018)
"Stolen Evidence" Found window, insulation foam, tape, dirt, caulking 53 x 2 x 29 (2018)
"Half Empty" (Part of "Chapel of the Rocks") found window, caulking, tape, glass 27 x 2 x 30 (2020)
"Spirit bomb" found window, insulation foam 35 x 2 x 38 (2021)
"Earth, wind, and hurricanes" Found window, spray paint, dirt, insulation foam, tape 27 x 2 x 33in (2021)
"Whiteness as a Concept of Erasure" found window, insulation foam, salt, caulking 34 x 2 x 28 (2019)
"Shattered portrait" (the first window) found window, glass, oil paint, charcoal, spray paint, caulking 28 x 2 x 34in
"Stuck" Found window, steel rebar 3 x 3 x 3ft (2016) Private Collection