PG: The video engages [with] the physical and temporal conditions of my former studio building at 435 W Cermak Rd in Pilsen, Chicago, shortly before its demolition. The footage almost functions as an index – although unstable: the carpet pattern appears and recedes according to available light, occasionally interrupted by my shadow or collapsing entirely into darkness. What emerges is less a documentation of space than a registration of conditions—luminosity, duration, the mechanical cadence of cycling as a form of measurement.

I was particularly interested in the basement because it is architecturally a zone of foundation and support. In the video it becomes inverted: a terminal site rather than a generative one.

Using a Divvy (bike) Chicago's "public" bike infrastructure) to film a continuous circulation through the room further complicated questions of access, temporality, and municipal systems. 

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Typical of his ongoing interrogation of the documentary genre, what emerges from repeatedly circling the basement of the warehouse is a document that is simultaneously indexical and abstract, and touches on broader questions about how we occupy, record, and release spaces.

Later, this project became one of the stepping stones that led to the conception and realization of the first by bye iteration at the Cermak Center.