Brent Widen - That Which Is Destroyed By Fire Shall Be Rebuilt By Fire
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Brent Widen created this altar as an homage to the building that stood on the 1500 block of S. Flores St. in San Antonio, TX. Brent has been supporting artists, making art and collecting art for over 45 years. He arrived in San Antonio from Chicago in 1988 & can usually be found at the historic Wong Grocery Company Building.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The materials used to build this altar were gleaned from the wreckage of the Triangle Building at 1502 South Flores Street.
This historic building was engulfed in fire and smoke on February 28, 2020, just as the Pandemic was arriving in full force to the United States.
There are burnt pine timbers, a gas line twisted by the intense heat, busted glass and a blackened toy football from someone’s desk.
The altar consists of ugly things, but in their totality and arrangement there is beauty, and truth.
The truth is that temporal reality is fragile indeed; what is here today is gone tomorrow, there is no abiding eternal thing that our senses can perceive.
Only the Eternal remains the Eternal, that of the Spirit, that unbound by time and space, and therefore, common to all.
Isaiah the Prophet relates in Chapter 43:
“I will be with you, when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle on you….Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it springs forth.”
BUILDING DETAILS:
The triangle-shaped building, which sat on a triangular parcel of land between Nogalitos and South Flores Streets, was known as the “Historic Site Triangle Garage” on the Office of Historic Preservation’s interactive map of historic landmarks.
It was built in 1929, and was the home of web design and creative firm Sweb Development until it was destroyed by fire on March 6, 2020. It was the site of the city's first Texaco station. The background photograph of the original Texaco station along with objects retrieved from the fire site compose this thoughtful composition of the hope and possibilities after destruction.
Donated by :
Name : Brent Widen
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