These works are relief sculptures created by embedding fractured, mass-produced figurative objects into poured concrete forms. The figures—drawn from toys, decorative ceramics, and cultural icons—are physically broken and immobilized, then fixed into a material associated with infrastructure, permanence, and construction.

The fractures are not symbolic gestures but material facts. The objects are interrupted rather than destroyed. Their identities remain legible while their agency is removed.

Concrete functions as both container and structure. It does not erase the figures it holds, nor does it restore them. Instead, it preserves them in a suspended state—neither active nor erased, neither memorialized nor discarded.

The work treats childhood imagery, belief systems, national symbols, and popular culture with the same physical logic. Each is subjected to identical processes of containment and permanence. No hierarchy is assigned.

These pieces are not narratives. They do not depict events or outcomes. They function as artifacts—objects that appear to have survived a process without explanation.

What remains is not critique or nostalgia, but residue.

— Scott Bruce