Guardians

Carved figures set into the facade of a classical building, photographed from below — their positions deliberate, their gaze outward, their presence built into the very structure they protect. These guardians have watched over this threshold through centuries of change in belief, culture, and meaning, and they remain, still holding their post.
The piece turns on that quiet persistence — the human need to place protective figures at the edges of the spaces we inhabit, to build watchfulness into the architecture of our lives. What we guard against shifts. The impulse to guard does not.