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Abraham Cruzvillegas Analysis
Abraham Cruzvillegas creates art that embraces experience and memory. He speaks about his father and their community built homes with the limited recourses they had available; knowing nothing about architecture.
His work takes a similar approach in that he uses random and historical materials to construct art sculptures. His sculptures are constructed of many elements as well as different origins. He uses everything from wood beams from demolished homes to materials from demolitions to the cuts of jeans to bear bottle caps to materials from the late nineteenth century. In the film Abraham Cruzvillegas says, "I constantly make structures that are about to collapse they are not technically okay." He uses art as a unique expression as he incorporates

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