Structural Catabolism

Photography of the Built Environment

"Forced by jackhammer, crowbar, torch, and hand to reverse course after decades of coal burning; to ultimately suck themselves back inward. Demolition and implosion were wholly inadequate to characterize the process."

- Eric Laverty

"Many images endure as poetic evidence of man's noble industry, rivaling the great archeological and construction archives of the past, while a select few, sometimes unrecognizable in origin, outlive their context as abstractions of sublime artistic beauty"

- The Architectural Review

"The temporary loss of our industrial legacies is in itself, an opening for meditation and reflection; however, it is only through re-engagment that the remarkable nature of these once vital structures is revealed again and Structural Catabolism begins - inspiring a fleeting cast of shadows in its wake."

- Eric Laverty