Relic of the 1965 Cullen Bridge

A bridge comes down and what remains is metal — bent, compressed, marked by decades of weight and weather. This fragment came from the demolition of the Charles W. Cullen Bridge at the Indian River Inlet. It was not chosen at random. Taking a piece of it was a way of holding onto something that could not otherwise be kept.

The images were made using high-magnification focus stacking — a technique borrowed from scientific microscopy — capturing dozens of focal planes and combining them into a single, fully resolved image. What the process reveals is not the object as it was, but what close looking finds inside it: texture, tonality, undulating lines that move between the industrial and the elemental.

The fragment that began as an act of memory becomes, through the work, something beyond its origin. Whether what remains is wreckage or sculpture — relic or revelation — is left to the viewer.

Relic of the 1965 Cullen Bridge is presented as a diptych.

Ocean View, DE – 2015