Lake Michigan
What is Lost, is Lost.
In 1972 Louis Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange was torn down a mere 78 years after its construction. What was once a proud civic landmark had been reduced to a collection of over sized souvenirs, the type that adorn various museum walls; part of gate here, a cornerstone there. Most damning of these souvenirs was the archway that had once ushered commerce into its great rooms is now quarantined just outside The Art Institute of Chicago. It stands in a kind of isolated limbo as it functions as neither relic, ruin, monument, nor sculpture. Cars on the adjacent street are treated to the flat prosthetic construction that now holds it up and the few passers by are refrained from even walking under it. The arch has become an object that contains no real purpose, no longer has any connection to its past. Its value now might only serve in the faintest of reminders that it is sometimes better to just let go, sometimes it is just better to forget, that sometimes what is lost, is lost.
Federal Plaza
Millennium Park
Chicago Tribune Building
James R. Thompson Center
Architectural Artifacts
Graceland Cemetery
The Art Institute of Chicago
