Block (Dissected Sphere)

Alex Allardyce

b. 1957, Scottish

Recycled cardboard

2025

31.5 x 31.5 x 31.5 in.

Decorative concrete blocks are ubiquitous throughout Bermuda. Used as balustrades, fences and screens, they are a visual echo of the 1970s building boom fueled by the expansion of tourist air travel. They are a common marker of the human footprint on this rugged and rocky environment where practicality was a life essential. In my mind’s eye they have become emblematic of Bermuda. Block (Dissected Sphere) is a sculptural development of these symbols—a distillation of the natural and the man-made.

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