Constructed from luan, color paper, and bamboo sticks, this untitled 2007 work by Alice Könitz rises to a slender, totemic height of 152.4 centimeters while maintaining a compact footprint of 35.6 by 35.6 centimeters. The combination of modest, everyday materials produces an object that reads simultaneously as sculptural architecture and assembled artifact, balancing structural economy with quiet formal presence. Könitz's choice of luan, a lightweight tropical hardwood panel familiar from domestic interiors, alongside the workmanlike simplicity of bamboo and paper, reflects a consistent interest in the poetry latent within utilitarian substances, elevating the overlooked into something considered and precise. Könitz, born in Essen in 1970 and long based in Los Angeles, trained at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and California Institute of the Arts, and her practice has been shaped by a sustained engagement with institutional forms, participatory structures, and the productive ambiguity of handmade objects. Her work has entered the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and she has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, and institutions across Europe and Asia. In 2012 she founded the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA), a project that interrogated what a museum could be when built around participation rather than permanence, a sensibility that quietly informs even her most object-based work. This piece, made the same year as her residency at TongXian Art Center in Beijing, carries the focused material attentiveness that defines her practice at its most distilled.