Sage Lewis embraces the complicated nature of the studio as a space of both production and undoing. Lewis's practice is informed by a reflective and transformative engagement with the construction, collapse, and renewal of images and objects. The work in her studio becomes crystallized through the acceptance of the unfamiliar. But the materials assume new visual codes and surface properties, while generating larger questions about the perceived givens of seeing and experiencing things in the world. -Timothy Smith, curator, Fragments of an Unknowable Whole

The subjects pictured throughout these works are three-dimensional black carbon-paper sculptures. Loosely drawn from architecture, I designed and carefully hand-constructed the geometric pieces, the largest being about five feet, before crushing them in a printmaking press. The geometry of my ruled and scored lines became crisscrossed with the irregular, jagged creases from the form collapsing on itself. Pulling the flattened forms back into three dimensions produced compelling subjects to photograph and draw. In these structures I saw both architecture and ruins.