Spill Life

Jared’s Micro-City Series is an exploration of humanity through architecture, highlighting the best and worst of us through the things we build and what we destroy to build them. He has found that a city can act as a perfect lens to view a culture through, and therefore a perfect allegory to tell stories and ignite our emotions. LEGO® bricks are the perfect tool for combining art and architecture in this way.

Spill Life is the second installment in Jared’s Micro-City series. The piece is named for the point at which it, literally, turns a still life upside down. This change - the spill, is the real moment of life in the piece, showing the brief beauty the spill has taken on. The city, an expanding modern cityscape, is captured entirely as black ink. The physical construction of Spill Life was incredibly challenging, due to the limited clutch power and weight that comes from the hovering inkpot. This is a parallel piece to the fourth installment in Jared’s Micro-City series, Pareidolia. Both pieces utilize stark color choices to invoke emotion and capture the fleeting beauty we miss in our busy, everyday lives.