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Structural Atmospheres

gravity as balance

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gravity as balance

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gravity as balance

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Orgin:

Mexico

Field Notes:

Glass straps stones and slabs lean against each other revealing hidden dependencies in modern materials

Defining Moment:

The precarious stacking works where boulders are held by ratchet straps against fragile panels mapping tension as drawing in space

Jose Dávila

(

1974–

)

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Dávila built a world where stone, glass, and tension align — precarious arrangements revealing equilibrium as sculptural clarity.

His works turn physics into poise.

Structural Focus

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Jose Dávila’s work, this approach appears where gravity leaves structural balance unresolved.

Position

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Jose Dávila’s work, this approach appears where gravity leaves structural balance unresolved.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Reduction clarifies form through repetition, scale, and restraint.

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Rachel Harrison

fragment as critique

Monument as tenderness

In Dialogue

Cristina Iglesias

threshold as environment

line as spatial mesh