

Kona Lava Black Slash (Steel)
2015
Kona Lava Black Slash (Steel) brings together a Corten steel frame, poured concrete, and unique C-prints in a compact relief that collapses the boundary between photograph and physical material. Wilson transfers photographic imagery directly into concrete, allowing the surface to absorb and partially obscure the landscape beneath it, so that the lava fields of Kona emerge less as a picture than as a kind of geological residue. The rusted steel frame does not merely contain the work but participates in it, its oxidized patina rhyming with the dark volcanic ground it surrounds. At 61 by 71 centimeters, the piece carries an intimacy that rewards close looking, revealing textures and tonal shifts that shift with changes in light. Wilson situates this work within a sustained practice of investigating how photographic images behave when removed from their conventional flatness and embedded within construction materials. The Kona lava landscape, already a subject defined by slow accumulation and transformation, becomes doubly charged when cast in concrete, a material that shares its own logic of hardening, setting, and permanent record. The result is an object that sits somewhere between sculpture, photography, and geology, asking collectors to reconsider what it means for an image to occupy space rather than simply represent it. Offered through Anat Ebgi and signed by the artist, this unique work represents a precise and physically compelling moment in Wilson's ongoing inquiry into landscape, materiality, and the limits of the photographic medium.
- Medium
- Unique C-prints, concrete transfer, concrete, Corten steel frame
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Anat EbgiView on map
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