WASTED

In those moments of time when everything slows down and becomes hyper real, artist Povilas Pullinen finds great internal clarity. The impending destruction feels like no better time than to realize who you are, what you are, and where you must arrive before healing.

In his first exhibited body of work, WASTED, the Los Angeles artist stands back in the crowd like a witness to his own accidents, watching from afar as great sculptures of steel and rubber careen into fiery oblivion. The graphic messages that adorn them, like tattoos on skin, are a collection of outcries and reminders – a notebook of the internal life bound to each moment.

They must inevitably yield to the flame, but only through their destruction is there a possibility of epiphany and the chance for new life spring to forth.