NOWHERE / BOREDOM

This project abstracts the buses associated with the Sex Pistols into sculptural meditations on the intersections between public and private space, mass and underground movements, rebellion and permanence. By remixing and recontextualizing an icon of punk’s anti-establishment imagery, the work explores how symbols of dissent are absorbed, institutionalized, and reactivated through new materials and contexts. The bus—once a moving emblem of noise, attitude, and mobility—becomes a motionless vessel for cultural memory, reframed through processes of sampling and appropriation that question who controls movement, message, and meaning in public life. In this transformation, the work asks how pop culture, like architecture, design, and structure, remakes us in its own image—how what begins as raw and transgressive becomes part of the built environment of identity and desire.

When translated from two-dimensional graphics into large-scale forms of marble, glass, steel, and concrete, the interpretation undergoes a dramatic shift. Marble monumentalizes the fleeting gesture into a legacy; glass fractures and mirrors the viewer, implicating them in the spectacle; steel evokes both the machinery of industry and the structures of control; concrete grounds the work in the language of everyday urban infrastructure. Each material blurs the line between rebellion and institution, between artifact, icon, and collectibles. Installed publicly, these forms occupy space like mementos of modernity—where punk’s urgency is fossilized into form, and the energy of underground culture continues to reverberate through the architecture and design of the everyday.