18" x 24" Hand-Embellished Archival. Pigment Print on 290gsm. Moab Fine Art Paper. LIMITED EDITION OF 40. "'Without Excuse' is a piece I made while I was at the Jardin Orange artist residency in Shenzhen, China in 2018. "I spent a lot of time in Shenzhen, roaming around abandoned buildings collecting old signs and posters and billboards. I don't read Chinese, so I had no idea what was written on any of these things. What I was trying to do was tell something about a place through what was discarded or left behind, while also juxtaposing that with some of my salvage portraits. Much of the material in this piece came from an abandoned office building at the beginning of August 2018. By the time I left Shenzhen, the building was well on its way to being apartments. Things change fast in Shenzhen.". –Eddie Colla.
