Subducted presents a fractured slab of concrete and exposed rebar erupting from a conventional pedestal, collapsing the boundary between sculptural object and architectural remnant. Produced in 2011, the work belongs to Ruben Ochoa's ongoing investigation into the built environment as both material reality and social text, drawing on the artist's deep familiarity with the infrastructures that shape working-class and border landscapes in Southern California. The concrete here is not merely formal material but carries the weight of construction labor, urban development, and the often-invisible systems that underpin daily life in contested geographies. The title, Subducted, borrows from geological vocabulary, evoking the slow, forceful process by which one tectonic plate is driven beneath another. Ochoa maps that geological violence onto the social and spatial pressures experienced by communities displaced by development, redevelopment, and the relentless churn of urban expansion. The rebar, raw and unapologetically industrial, refuses the refinements typically expected of gallery-bound sculpture, insisting instead on the presence of the laborer and the site from which these materials originate. Available in an edition of 18 and signed by the artist, Subducted holds strong appeal for collectors drawn to socially engaged practice with rigorous formal intelligence. Ochoa's work is held in significant institutional collections, and his sculptures have been recognized for bridging political urgency with a sophisticated command of materials and scale. This work is currently on offer through Locust Projects, and its relatively compact dimensions make it well suited to both private and institutional display contexts.