David Slegers

In May of 2019, David discovered a deconstruction site not far from his apartment. Following this discovery, he spent the next three months visiting (and entering) this deconstruction site countless times with his camera. The site quickly became a sanctuary of sorts, and captured his imagination unlike any place he has photographed before or since. With each visit, as the building continued to erode and dematerialize, it began to reveal new textures, shapes, shadows, and perspectives, and offered a strange, yet much-needed sense of peace and solitude during a lowly period in his life. Having captured thousands of images from that site, David has since spent time editing, and more truthfully, contemplating exactly what drew him to this space, and why it resonated with him so strongly.

Using a variety of media—including collage, ink, pencil, and gouache—David focuses on finer details, constructing small, intricate works on paper that strive to disassemble our world and examine our relationship with it. A nascent fixation on architecture, infrastructure, and urban decay, coupled with a lifetime of doodling, sketching, and exploring, has steadily led to the formation and creation of this current body of work. The idea of the city, from both a macro and micro perspective, serves as David’s primary inspiration. Constantly dabbling in a variety of disciplines, his newfound interest in the city has led to a myriad of (somewhat) academic wormholes, including entropy, termite colonies, and cellular biology. With these ideas in mind, the ultimate results are these Recollections; i.e., schematics for dream worlds, blueprints for the inexpressible, or alien QR codes for a species struggling to comprehend our world.

Coyotes are David’s favorite animal. A much-maligned yet misunderstood species, coyotes constantly straddle the line between wilderness and civilization and succeed in this endeavor perhaps better than any other species. And yet, for this reason, they are not celebrated but often hated. As someone who grew up on a farm and now finds himself amid the city, David has found much to admire and relate to in this wily creature. Coyotes do nothing but survive and adapt, yet they remain the consummate outsider, unwanted in nearly every environment they encounter. As a simple tribute to his undying fascination with this most disparaged of all canids, David has painted these acrylic portraits.

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