Message from the Exterior Edition:Unsigned a place once suspended in

a place once suspended in time

Sharp details testify to the abandonment and demise of half-familiar scenes even as they transfigure them into stage-like arenas for ideation

tonalities

almost all of which are little-known and previously unpublished

but altered by Divola’s obscure hieroglyphs they are alive with suggestions of symbolism and fiction

Message from the Exterior Edition:Unsigned a place once suspended inMessage from the Exterior explores the ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the deserts harsh environments, depicting abandoned houses small, often eccentric huts, both humorous and a little forlorn. Ruwedel examines the desert regions east of Los Angeles as a palimpsest of cultural and natural histories, presenting an inventory of a particular, and poignant, form of vernacular architecture; each structure might be read as a clue to the