Rodney Bursiel's Tower

A panoramic composition of commanding scale, Rodney Bursiel's Tower layers paper, photograph, fabric, linen, and wood behind glass into a work of quiet architectural authority — its gold finish casting a warm, luminous perimeter that reads as both frame and artifact. At nearly five feet in width, the piece carries the presence of something collected rather than acquired, belonging to a tradition of mixed-media work where surface depth and material tension do the storytelling. John Richard's authorship ensures a standard of craft that holds the layered elements in precise, considered relationship, the whole suspended in that rare register where art and object become indistinguishable.