Artist Kurt Treeby recreates demolished buildings in tissue-box form

Trained as a painter, Buffalo-based artist Kurt Treeby has since turned his interest in fiber work and architecture into an opportunity to reflect on loss in the built environment, recreating buildings in plastic canvas and yarn—often as tissue boxes.

For those saddened by the loss of important works of architecture, Kurt Treeby is creating a tissue box to help mourn the misfortune. Buildings such as the BEST products showroom designed by SITE and Paul Rudolph's Shoreline Apartment complex are being transformed by the artist, who turns the lost works into tissue-box replicas using yarn and plastic. 

In his artist's statement, Treeby says the work is meant to examine "the architectural ecosystem of production, consumption, and destruction embedded into the social, economic, and physical landscape of cities." The result of a painstaking process involving thousands of precise stitches, his works function as "as the visual embodiment of the restoration process, as historical records, and as personal memories; all imperfect and incomplete."

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